After learning that AI companies use Internet Archive's Wayback Machine to gather data from websites, Reddit will start to block it from touching the site's posts, comments, and profiles. "Internet Archive provides a service to the open web, but we’ve been made aware of instances where AI companies violate platform policies, including ours, and scrape data from the Wayback Machine," said Tim Rathschmidt, Reddit's spokesperson. Rathschmidt also stated, "Until they’re able to defend their site and comply with platform policies we’re limiting some of their access to Reddit data to protect redditors." The company has reached out to Internet Archive to inform them of this change. Read more in our articles including "Reddit to block Internet Archive Wayback Machine" and "PH among slowest countries in shift away from 3G".
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May 26, 2026After learning that AI companies use Internet Archive's Wayback Machine to gather data from websites, Reddit will start to block it from touching the site's posts, comments, and profiles. "Internet Archive provides a service to the open web, but we’ve been made aware of instances where AI companies violate platform policies, including ours, and scrape data from the Wayback Machine," said Tim Rathschmidt, Reddit's spokesperson.
Rathschmidt also stated, "Until they’re able to defend their site and comply with platform policies we’re limiting some of their access to Reddit data to protect redditors." The company has reached out to Internet Archive to inform them of this change.
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