Vendor-hosted forums

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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.

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]

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