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Vendor-hosted forums are unreliable in the long term, since they are more driven by vendors' commercial interests than by community interests. Additionally, they typically use proprietary content management systems, meaning a scraping script would need to be developed individually for each such forum. | Vendor-hosted forums are unreliable in the long term, since they are more driven by vendors' commercial interests than by community interests. Additionally, they typically use proprietary content management systems, meaning a scraping script would need to be developed individually for each such forum. | ||
For example, Apple has blocked users from their support forums for posting data recovery instructions.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrILfIE9IB4 ''Jessa Jones CORRECTS Apple on data recovery and gets BANNED!'' (Louis Rossman, 2019)]</ref> Samsung appears to be purging threads of legacy devices. For example, threads of the Galaxy S7 device appear to have been purged at some point, and existing links to such threads redirect to the home page.<ref>https://us.community.samsung.com/t5/Galaxy-S-Phones/s7-Edge-notification-setting/td-p/3396 | For example, Apple has blocked users from their support forums for posting data recovery instructions.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrILfIE9IB4 ''Jessa Jones CORRECTS Apple on data recovery and gets BANNED!'' (Louis Rossman, 2019)]</ref> Samsung appears to be purging threads of legacy devices. For example, threads of the Galaxy S7 device appear to have been purged at some point, and existing links to such threads redirect to the home page.<ref>[http://archive.today/https://us.community.samsung.com/t5/Galaxy-S-Phones/s7-Edge-notification-setting/td-p/3396 "S7 Edge notification setting" thread, last available in 2017], redirects to home page as of March 2022.</ref> | ||
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Latest revision as of 21:05, 11 March 2022
Vendor-hosted forums are unreliable in the long term, since they are more driven by vendors' commercial interests than by community interests. Additionally, they typically use proprietary content management systems, meaning a scraping script would need to be developed individually for each such forum.
For example, Apple has blocked users from their support forums for posting data recovery instructions.[1] Samsung appears to be purging threads of legacy devices. For example, threads of the Galaxy S7 device appear to have been purged at some point, and existing links to such threads redirect to the home page.[2]
References
- ↑ Jessa Jones CORRECTS Apple on data recovery and gets BANNED! (Louis Rossman, 2019)
- ↑ "S7 Edge notification setting" thread, last available in 2017, redirects to home page as of March 2022.