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Tracks contractual documents and exposes changes to the terms of online services.

2Distinct people
2Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
139GitHub stars
REPOSITORY AT A GLANCE

What to know before exploring

What it is

Tracks contractual documents and exposes changes to the terms of online services.

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Where it is used

No documented product use has been verified yet.

What people are saying

No recommendation phrase was found in the indexed comments.

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Also in these discussions

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 1:49:46 PM UTC.

No direct repository links were found in the indexed HN discussions over the past seven days. Older discussions are available below.

Mentions over time

HN mentions by day2 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2021-07-30 12:21:10 UTC to 2021-08-19 12:06:33 UTC.

012021-07-30 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-07-31 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsJul 302021-07-31 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-08-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-08-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-08-02 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-08-02 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-08-03 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-08-03 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-08-04 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-08-04 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-08-05 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-08-05 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-08-06 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-08-06 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-08-07 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-08-07 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-08-08 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-08-08 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-08-09 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-08-09 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-08-10 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsAug 92021-08-10 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-08-11 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-08-11 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-08-12 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-08-12 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-08-13 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-08-13 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-08-14 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-08-14 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-08-15 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-08-15 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-08-16 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-08-16 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-08-17 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-08-17 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-08-18 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-08-18 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-08-19 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-08-19 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-08-20 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsAug 19

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

View mention counts and date ranges
UTC ranges include their start and exclude their end. Select a period to filter the source evidence.
PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
Jul 302021-07-30 00:00:00 UTC2021-07-31 00:00:00 UTC101
Jul 312021-07-31 00:00:00 UTC2021-08-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Aug 12021-08-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-08-02 00:00:00 UTC000
Aug 22021-08-02 00:00:00 UTC2021-08-03 00:00:00 UTC000
Aug 32021-08-03 00:00:00 UTC2021-08-04 00:00:00 UTC000
Aug 42021-08-04 00:00:00 UTC2021-08-05 00:00:00 UTC000
Aug 52021-08-05 00:00:00 UTC2021-08-06 00:00:00 UTC000
Aug 62021-08-06 00:00:00 UTC2021-08-07 00:00:00 UTC000
Aug 72021-08-07 00:00:00 UTC2021-08-08 00:00:00 UTC000
Aug 82021-08-08 00:00:00 UTC2021-08-09 00:00:00 UTC000
Aug 92021-08-09 00:00:00 UTC2021-08-10 00:00:00 UTC000
Aug 102021-08-10 00:00:00 UTC2021-08-11 00:00:00 UTC000
Aug 112021-08-11 00:00:00 UTC2021-08-12 00:00:00 UTC000
Aug 122021-08-12 00:00:00 UTC2021-08-13 00:00:00 UTC000
Aug 132021-08-13 00:00:00 UTC2021-08-14 00:00:00 UTC000
Aug 142021-08-14 00:00:00 UTC2021-08-15 00:00:00 UTC000
Aug 152021-08-15 00:00:00 UTC2021-08-16 00:00:00 UTC000
Aug 162021-08-16 00:00:00 UTC2021-08-17 00:00:00 UTC000
Aug 172021-08-17 00:00:00 UTC2021-08-18 00:00:00 UTC000
Aug 182021-08-18 00:00:00 UTC2021-08-19 00:00:00 UTC000
Aug 192021-08-19 00:00:00 UTC2021-08-20 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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Hello everyone Thank you for your interest for Open Terms Archive. As a reminder, OTA is the database of all ToS and their modifications for all companies in the world, in all languages, for all countries. Everything in a format that can be easily used to create applications. We have updated our privacy policy, thank you for pointing out that it was not complete. The only personal data we record is the email of a person who subscribes to the email notification service for changes to a document of their choice. As mentioned below, it is perfectly possible to follow the modifications of a document without giving your email address: - by RSS feed https://github.com/ambanum/OpenTermsArchive#by-rss - by browsing the repository https://github.com/ambanum/OpenTermsArchive-versions @indus: very nice idea to store your privacy policy in github! @s
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tared, @barredo: also a good idea, we will add, upon selection of service and document type, a direct link to github story see all changes. This way you can get a good idea of what you might receive by email if you decide to subscribe @cdubzzz: awesome, we will add the services you used to track on https://github.com/cdubz/legal-copy-histories/tree/master/hi... @jvolkman: very cool indeed but we have decided to not take their word for it @remram, thanks for the tip, we will contact them. We also already work with https://tosdr.org/ @tcmb, if you have any problem while adding a document on OTA, you can join us anytime at contact@opentermsarchive.org If you want to help us, you can : - Add or edit services and documents via a Pull Request on Github (read our documentation about it: https://github.com/ambanum/OpenTermsArchive/blob/master/CONT...). You can also use the contribution interface (https://opentermsarchive.org/en/contribute) which is useful for people who don't know Github (but it doesn't work for all sites). - Build tools from the dataset (https://github.com/ambanum/OpenTermsArchive-versions/release...) or the API (https://disinfo.quaidorsay.fr/api/open-terms-archive/docs). As an example we have built Scripta Manent (https://disinfo.quaidorsay.fr/en/open-terms-archive/scripta-...), a tool that allows to compare a document between two dates. - Improving our source code (https://github.com/ambanum/OpenTermsArchive): our biggest task is to add document tracking in several languages and jurisdictions, which is far from being an easy task. - Raise awareness of the project and help us find funding so that OTA can continue to develop and become a digital commons. - Follow us on Twitter @OpenTerms where we post changes to documents that we find interesting. Thank you !
In Open Terms Archive – Follow changes to terms of service

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