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Reddit, Internet Archive and Data Scraping

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 · 1d

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 · 2d

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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Reddit is blocking Wayback Machine from archiving users' posts

The social media platform claims it's to protect users' privacy, but money appears to be the more motivating factor.

2don MSN

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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Reddit, Internet Archive and Data Scraping

Reddit is blocking Wayback Machine from archiving users' posts

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

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