That is a ridiculous way to try and deal with the problem of residential proxies.
You are, in reality, only hurting the actual owners, the subscribers of those ISPs who are behind those addresses. We call that "collateral damage".
If any of those actual residential users try to use a website, their ability to freely access the Internet may be harmed by a bad reputation that they do not deserve. They may be totally unaware and non-consenting to residential proxy use.
You are not, in fact, hurting the residential proxy-ers at all. Not one bit. They will move on to another IP and another compromised LAN, and they will continue to move on and on and on. They will not be harmed or impeded; they will simply keep turning up fresh, new, high-reputation IPv4 and IPv6 sources. This is a sheer numbers game, where the numbers are always in favor of the attackers.
Also if network admins keep blocking/filtering abusive residential proxies, they will balloon their firewall rules and cause actual performance issues at the network level. You will turn into your own DDOS without any actual benefit. You're on the losing side of the numbers game, and in the immortal words of W.O.P.R., "The Only Winning Move Is... Not to Play."
Similar to how people running an open SMTP are complicit in promoting spam, I see people running a wild public proxy as complicit in this malicious scraping activity.
And similar to how most people running mail daemons are using blackhole lists nowadays and are keen to not end up on there, maybe ISPs and web hosters can use the AbuseIPDB to sort out their customers.
Just doing nothing doesn't appear to stop the scans hammering my poor Raspberry Pi serving my few Git repositories.
Hey, from the beginning of SMTP, running an open relay was an administrative mistake. The MTA administrators were supposed to know what they were doing, because resources were allocated to them. They had privileges granted for the system and the network. It was right if they were blacklisted for misuse of those resources.
Now in 2026, running a "public proxy" doesn't take an administrator. You don't even need to be aware. Most victims are unknowing victims. They simply subscribe to an ISP and they have their own devices. They are being exploited for that innocence and ignorance. Most victims have no visibility to even detect that they're being used as a proxy. Most victims couldn't stop it, even if they wanted to.
I challenge anyone with a home router to list the processes running on that router, and list all current open connections on that router, and list all open, listening sockets on that router. I bet you can't do it. There are no consumer router OS that lend themselves to being secured, or even diagnosed. Malware can easily be planted on any of them and run, completely invisibly.
A residential proxy server could run on routers, could run on a switch, could run on your "Smart TV" or a smartphone, or a notebook computer. It could be anywhere in any form. Perhaps you consented to it, perhaps you didn't notice.
In no way is this the same as an SMTP open relay situation. If you wanna play "whack-a-mole" with a "blackhole list" you're simply going to overwhelm those lists with false positives and collateral damage. The residential proxies have long since moved on. You won't even find the culprits using those addresses you just blocked. You're just clogging up your own machines. It's a total self-own.
Some ISPs ban customers based on a single report there - have fun!