HunchBluntley: Since you've mentioned before that you correct release dates on your site when aware of GOG's info being wrong, I'll mention that
Gunslugs -- credited by GOG as having come out this year -- is actually from 2013 (or '15, if you want to ignore the original mobile and [apparently] browser versions for whatever reason), and is not, in fact, a sequel to
Gunslugs 2 and
3. Not sure where GOG got their date from.
It has the same global release date as release date on GOG, which is a pattern which I've seen before; it doesn't happen automatically, as the global release date is also frequently left empty, so I hypothesize this field can be filled in freely by publishers, and either lacks good instructions for what it means, or that this particular publisher just didn't read those instructions.
Anyway, I've corrected it to 2015-06-02 (Steam's release date), since my personal definition of what the field should be is something like "first date on which the 1.0 version of the PC game was widely available for purchase". (And then I reluctantly treat remasters as new versions.) That still gives it a later release date than Gunslugs 2, but at least in the same year, and from the looks of it, for a PC-gamer that'd basically be correct. (If you happen to look immediately; this correction will still need a few minutes before it'll show up on GameSieve.)
Thanks for mentioning it, and if you - or anyone else - knows of other similar issues, I'm always happy to hear about them!
dnovraD: Have you considered implementing a blackhole or brambles?
I have considered it, but since I recognize the underlying behaviour of this particular scraper as that from a particular "service" to AI companies which is developed specifically to bypass all scraping protections, I'd suspect that most widely used protections will be recognized and bypassed. And I just don't want to expend the effort to come to grips with - and do at least a cursory security audit of - yet another tool, when I can also just tweak my own custom protections another step. In absolute terms the scrapers aren't causing problems yet; they're just an ever-looming threat where if I don't dam them in, they can swiftly start to.