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Reddit will block the Internet Archive


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Reddit says that it has caught AI companies scraping its data from the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine, so it's going to start blocking the Internet Archive from indexing the vast majority of Reddit. The Wayback Machine will no longer be able to crawl post detail pages, comments, or profiles; instead, it will only be able to index the Reddit.com homepage, which effectively means Internet Archive will only be able to archive insights into which news headlines and posts were most popular on a given day. [...]

"We have a longstanding relationship with Reddit and continue to have ongoing discussions about this matter," Mark Graham, director of the Wayback Machine, says in a statement to The Verge.

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