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The scrapers most likely don't use the VPN providers AFAIK. But these cloud providers have dozens of datacenter locations where you can rent your own virtual server (VPSes) and those datacenters are also often used by VPN providers.
Its actually often coming from separate IP addresses. Which makes it actually even harder, its not just 1 or 2 IP addresses. Meaning both good and bad traffic has 100.000+ of unique IP addresses per IP range. At that point I block the whole ASN: https://www.cloudflare.com/learning/network-layer/what-is-an-autonomous-system/
Meaning I basically block the whole datacenter and mark them as bad actors. Cloud server providers F*K up the internet, since before you can easily block one, two or ten IPs and be done. Today, those bad actors and scrapers or DDos attackers can use millions of unique IP addresses, because it can rely on the whole cloud provider IP ranges (ipv6 is even more insane ofc).
https://asrank.caida.org/
Ok that makes sense. As a user I've always wondered what it was like from the providers perspective. I always hear people complaining that more and more websites block VPNs, but sounds like it might be better to say more and more websites block scrapers and the VPNs are collateral. Thanks for the insight