diff --git a/brozzler/frontier.py b/brozzler/frontier.py
index 628ff32..772fca3 100644
--- a/brozzler/frontier.py
+++ b/brozzler/frontier.py
@@ -261,8 +261,7 @@ class RethinkDbFrontier:
         site.save()
 
     def scope_and_schedule_outlinks(self, site, parent_page, outlinks):
-        if site.remember_outlinks:
-            decisions = {"accepted":set(),"blocked":set(),"rejected":set()}
+        decisions = {"accepted":set(),"blocked":set(),"rejected":set()}
         counts = {"added":0,"updated":0,"rejected":0,"blocked":0}
         for url in outlinks or []:
             url_for_scoping = urlcanon.semantic(url)
@@ -289,22 +288,18 @@ class RethinkDbFrontier:
                     else:
                         new_child_page.save()
                         counts["added"] += 1
-                    if site.remember_outlinks:
-                        decisions["accepted"].add(str(url_for_crawling))
+                    decisions["accepted"].add(str(url_for_crawling))
                 else:
                     counts["blocked"] += 1
-                    if site.remember_outlinks:
-                        decisions["blocked"].add(str(url_for_crawling))
+                    decisions["blocked"].add(str(url_for_crawling))
             else:
                 counts["rejected"] += 1
-                if site.remember_outlinks:
-                    decisions["rejected"].add(str(url_for_crawling))
+                decisions["rejected"].add(str(url_for_crawling))
 
-        if site.remember_outlinks:
-            parent_page.outlinks = {}
-            for k in decisions:
-                parent_page.outlinks[k] = list(decisions[k])
-            parent_page.save()
+        parent_page.outlinks = {}
+        for k in decisions:
+            parent_page.outlinks[k] = list(decisions[k])
+        parent_page.save()
 
         self.logger.info(
                 "%s new links added, %s existing links updated, %s links "
diff --git a/brozzler/job_schema.yaml b/brozzler/job_schema.yaml
index d428bac..9a2ba58 100644
--- a/brozzler/job_schema.yaml
+++ b/brozzler/job_schema.yaml
@@ -75,6 +75,7 @@ id:
       max_hops_off_surt:
         type: integer
 
+  # ignored, left for backward compatibility
   remember_outlinks:
     type: boolean
 
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 3d56d2f..3353b9e 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ def find_package_data(package):
 
 setuptools.setup(
         name='brozzler',
-        version='1.1b9.dev206',
+        version='1.1b9.dev207',
         description='Distributed web crawling with browsers',
         url='https://github.com/internetarchive/brozzler',
         author='Noah Levitt',
diff --git a/tests/test_frontier.py b/tests/test_frontier.py
index 1601934..d276439 100644
--- a/tests/test_frontier.py
+++ b/tests/test_frontier.py
@@ -252,8 +252,7 @@ def test_field_defaults():
 def test_scope_and_schedule_outlinks():
     rr = doublethink.Rethinker('localhost', db='ignoreme')
     frontier = brozzler.RethinkDbFrontier(rr)
-    site = brozzler.Site(rr, {
-        'seed':'http://example.com/', 'remember_outlinks':True})
+    site = brozzler.Site(rr, {'seed':'http://example.com/'})
     parent_page = brozzler.Page(rr, {
         'hops_from_seed': 1, 'url': 'http://example.com/whatever'})
     outlinks = [