> More often than not, it's a cooperating distributed net of hundreds of bots, coming from multiple AWS, Azure, and GCP addresses.
those are only the low-effort/cheap ones, the more advanced scraping makes use of residential proxies (peoples' pwned home routers, or where they've installed shady VPN software on their PC that turns them into a proxy) to appear to come from legitimate residential last mile broadband netblocks belonging to comcast, verizon, etc.
google "residential proxies for sale" for the tip of an iceberg of a bunch of shady grey market shit.
those are only the low-effort/cheap ones, the more advanced scraping makes use of residential proxies (peoples' pwned home routers, or where they've installed shady VPN software on their PC that turns them into a proxy) to appear to come from legitimate residential last mile broadband netblocks belonging to comcast, verizon, etc.
google "residential proxies for sale" for the tip of an iceberg of a bunch of shady grey market shit.