https://OpenStreetMap.org has been disrupted today.
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@pesasa @ISibboI @osm_tech
If its helpful (if you want to stuff something unpleasant down their throats), I believe @jwz has been making a 'json bomb' for (AIUI) pretty much this purpose:
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https://OpenStreetMap.org has been disrupted today. We're working to keep the site online while facing extreme load from anonymous scrapers spread across 100,000+ IP addresses. Please be patient while we mitigate and protect the service. #OpenStreetMap #DDoS #Scrapers #AI
@osm_tech @lehtimaeki I wonder if anyone has looked at the various AI browsers out there to see if they're used for active scraping.
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@Don_Clemente Just dumb scrapers. They want our data, so maybe we /should/ redirect them to the latest full history planet file, it is only 245GB
@osm_tech @Don_Clemente Replacing the actual data with Null Island data that points to planet.osm.org is not a dumb idea IMHO
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https://OpenStreetMap.org has been disrupted today. We're working to keep the site online while facing extreme load from anonymous scrapers spread across 100,000+ IP addresses. Please be patient while we mitigate and protect the service. #OpenStreetMap #DDoS #Scrapers #AI
@osm_tech Block all read access except from registered users? And be restrictive on whom to grant an account (captcha, verified email address)?
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https://OpenStreetMap.org has been disrupted today. We're working to keep the site online while facing extreme load from anonymous scrapers spread across 100,000+ IP addresses. Please be patient while we mitigate and protect the service. #OpenStreetMap #DDoS #Scrapers #AI
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@osm_tech yes, but that's heavy on your resources and bandwidth. A zip file of 10GB Zeros is much more resource-efficient on your side
@osm_tech @Don_Clemente Can confirm. >:D
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@osm_tech Block all read access except from registered users? And be restrictive on whom to grant an account (captcha, verified email address)?
had a similar issue with a much, much smaller wiki server (
) but facing the same anonymous scrapers coming from thousands of random IP's.Couldn't find a way to keep them from crashing the server, so now access is by registration only.
Very disruptive, this "AI" race to the bottom destroyed the open internet
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https://OpenStreetMap.org has been disrupted today. We're working to keep the site online while facing extreme load from anonymous scrapers spread across 100,000+ IP addresses. Please be patient while we mitigate and protect the service. #OpenStreetMap #DDoS #Scrapers #AI
@osm_tech I went to use OpenStreetMap today to get directions but it asked me to sign up/ log in, so I used Mapquest instead which doesn't.
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@ISibboI Correct. Not an ounce of brain. It has been going on for months, but it is just getting worse. Waste of their resources/time and ours.
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@osm_tech I went to use OpenStreetMap today to get directions but it asked me to sign up/ log in, so I used Mapquest instead which doesn't.
@Air_Quotes_Comedian Weird. We don't require login for directions.
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@Air_Quotes_Comedian Weird. We don't require login for directions.
@osm_tech Hmmm.
Perhaps I'm the only one who is required to log in for directions.
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https://OpenStreetMap.org has been disrupted today. We're working to keep the site online while facing extreme load from anonymous scrapers spread across 100,000+ IP addresses. Please be patient while we mitigate and protect the service. #OpenStreetMap #DDoS #Scrapers #AI
@osm_tech thank you for your service 🪖
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@ISibboI Correct. Not an ounce of brain. It has been going on for months, but it is just getting worse. Waste of their resources/time and ours.
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https://OpenStreetMap.org has been disrupted today. We're working to keep the site online while facing extreme load from anonymous scrapers spread across 100,000+ IP addresses. Please be patient while we mitigate and protect the service. #OpenStreetMap #DDoS #Scrapers #AI
@osm_tech I blocked user agents matching "Chrome.139.0.0.0 Safari.537.36" as this combination seems to not exist, except for millions of requests out of china.
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@geospacedman @ISibboI They are scraping the website pages: /ways/, /nodes/ and /relations/. All this data is published on planet.osm.org already.
@osm_tech
Bloody idiots. I wonder if it's AI platforms?
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https://OpenStreetMap.org has been disrupted today. We're working to keep the site online while facing extreme load from anonymous scrapers spread across 100,000+ IP addresses. Please be patient while we mitigate and protect the service. #OpenStreetMap #DDoS #Scrapers #AI
@osm_tech you should poison their data in some way
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@osm_tech Hmmm.
Perhaps I'm the only one who is required to log in for directions.
That looks unusual. How about sharing the original OSM URL where you requested for directions?
The only time the site will ask you to login is when you're trying to edit the map, all other operations can be used without an OSM account.
