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The Bright Data mentioned in the article, as well as other similarly malicious but even harder to identify parties, most certainly do fire up residential proxies, no matter what th…

I suspect the redundant requests are primarily designed to weed out poisoned data served on otherwise valid URLs. I've also seen the redundant requests increase massively the more …

Don't know if it matches with the lawsuits, but could've been Third Voice (1999-2001).

If current behaviour is anything to go by, they will ignore all such assistance, and instead insist on crawling infinite variations of the same content accessed with slightly diffe…

The Crime Cities installer does not appear to have ever been updated since it launched: https://www.gogdb.org/product/1485600994#changelog

There are no games on GOG which require a PlayStation account for their single player gameplay. (AFAIK, but I think I'm pretty tuned in and would know.)

https://www.gog.com/forum/general/drm_on_gog_list_of_singlep... has a full list.

There are also a handful of games which put some additional purely cosmetic content behind an online check. That could be the start of a slippery slope, which people are justly ups…

If the wine experience is anything to go by, if you don't have Galaxy installed at all, the shortcuts will also just point to the .exe - but yeah, I suspect it must be something li…

I had Crime Cities lying around since it was a freebie on GOG many years ago, so I just went ahead and installed it using vanilla wine. There was absolutely no Galaxy requirement f…

Galaxy can be required for multiplayer aspects in games, but if what you say is true for the singleplayer part of the game, GOG will consider it a bug, and will get it fixed. There…

Many games with multiplayer features require Galaxy for those multiplayer features. You can consider this DRM-equivalent if you want. However, every singleplayer game on GOG will w…

They're not creating something new. They're taking their existing tool (which - for all its flaws - is still far ahead of Heroic in many ways), improving it further, and changing i…

Not quite. You can use Galaxy to download the offline installers (or just do that through the website), but when you install a game through Galaxy , it downloads a special build wh…

https://gamesieve.com/ An alternative front-end / game discovery service / price tracker for GOG's catalog. Mostly manually enhancing the data from the API (90% heuristics, 10% hum…

Online sentiment has drastically changed about how bad those broken promises were - a near-complete turnaround, similar to what happened with No Man's Sky. Basically from when the …

I suspect this has been in a vague planning stage for the last few years, as various integrations between GOG and CD PROJEKT RED were slowly dismantled over that time (I particular…