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They used to use some data from osm, public transport in some parts of Poland, and they displayed the required attribution correctly:
https://xcancel.com/MapAmorePH/status/1453863816110952450
I have a feeling, it's just some users who copy from osm to gmaps, and they don't know it's illegal. They are already not the smartest people on earth, as they work for free to a for profit company...
I think Google's fault is mostly just not enforcing copyright laws. I've never seen something on gmaps copied from osm, but I reverted a lot of changesets because they copied from google. So your experiences are not as general as you think
How can you tell that something is copied from Google ?
Some people write that to changeset comment. Osmcha even flags changesets using such terms automatically.
If something is suspicious, I can ask them in a comment. They can lie, but most people do this because they don't know it's illegal.
Oh didn't realise that. I've definitely seen people use Google's street view as an aid for double checking at least I suppose before