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2026-02-11 14:05 UTC

@luis_in_brief We're faced with 1) Investing yet more time to come up with fingerprint protections to stop the abusive site scraping (which are side stepping all previous traditional controls; like robots.txt and individual IP address blocks) or 2) Buy additional hardware resources (at over inflated prices due to RAM/Flash pricing balloon).

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  • @osm_tech@en.osm.town 2026-02-11 14:12

    @luis_in_brief Historically we've been able to run OpenStreetMap very lean: a small volunteer sysadmin/SRE team and minimal, low-cost refurbished hardware. Both are now being pushed to breaking point. And most annoyingly, the scrapes are trying to get data we ALREADY PUBLISH as complete weekly compressed downloads on planet.osm.org

    Open ##1483953

  • @froztbyte@mastodon.social 2026-02-12 05:28

    @osm_tech @luis_in_brief I’ve had some reasonable success in dealing with them to date and would be open to chatting and seeing if I can contribute ideas/solutions/data (on my location of care I’m currently seeing 10~20m/day but catching >98% of them early on, and no longer making it to a place they can cause load on the (computationally expensive) prod sites) feel free to dm to set up contact

    Open ##1483956