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Reddit Limits Internet Archive Access to Curb AI Data Scraping and ‘Protect Redditors’

Reddit has recently blocked The Internet Archive from archiving forum posts, replies, and personal profiles on their site. Will other social media platforms follow suit?

ZDNET · 20h

Reddit blocks the Internet Archive from crawling its data - here's why

The Wayback Machine will now only be able to scrape data from Reddit's homepage, according to The Verge, while access to user profiles, comments, and post detail pages will be blocked.

Ars Technica · 1d

Reddit blocks Internet Archive to end sneaky AI scraping

Reddit is now blocking the Internet Archive (IA) from indexing popular Reddit threads after allegedly catching sneaky AI firms—restricted from scraping Reddit—instead simply scraping data from IA's archived content.

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These 6 Websites Used to Dominate the Internet, Now You Can Only See Archived Versions

While AltaVista helped us explore the web, GeoCities let us build our own little corners of it, thanks to founders David ...

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My journey to the heart of the forgotten internet

Slowly but surely, huge swaths of the internet are vanishing. But the artefacts of the early web are still out there, and ...

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Internet Archive is now a US federal depository library

The Internet Archive has become an official U.S. federal depository library, providing online users with access to archived ...

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It's About to Get Harder to Read Old Reddit Threads, and You Can Blame AI

Reddit will now block the Internet Archive from indexing most of the site, blaming AI companies for scraping Reddit archives to get around paying for training data.

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