How should we deal with dead websites?

Open philipp-classen opened this issue 2 years ago • 2 comments

Scenario: a services existed, but its operating company shut down. Now we have an entry with a website URL that no longer resolves. How to deal with it?

Options:

Remove it (but only if the field is not mandatory)
Link to Internet Archive
Keep the old, but broken URL (for historic reason), but mark it somehow?

Applies not only the website, but also to the privacy policy.

Sep 15 '23 18:09 philipp-classen

First step: introduce a temporary mechanism to tag dead entries: https://github.com/ghostery/trackerdb/pull/171

In the longer run, we can move the entries to a separate folder.

Dec 11 '23 15:12 philipp-classen

Until we have something better, you can archive them like that: https://github.com/ghostery/trackerdb/pull/248

Mar 28 '24 18:03 philipp-classen