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.

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.

Reddit has moved to restrict the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine from indexing most of its platform after identifying that some artificial intelligence companies have been using archived Reddit content for data scraping in ways that violate its policies.

The Internet Archive's Wayback Machine is the latest victim of Reddit's crackdown on data access. The company has begun to place new restrictions on what the archive site will be able to access in a move that will significantly limit the Wayback Machine's ability to preserve information from Reddit.

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?

Reddit (RDDT) has beef with the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine, a source that allows users to visit archived and historical versions of websites from across the internet. The social media platform has blocked the Wayback Machine from archiving its website,