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.

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 is limiting the Wayback Machine from indexing most of its site over concerns of unauthorized AI scraping.

Despite making innovations in the fields of SPAM and techno-psychosis, AI is damaging one of the internet's greatest resources.

AI scraping concerns are driving Reddit to restrict the Internet Archive to only its homepage, cutting off post and comment archives.

Reddit has announced to block the Internet Archive from indexing popular Reddit threads to prevent artificial intelligence firms from scrapping the content for training purposes. According

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,