Reddit has announced that they will block the Wayback Machine due to AI companies. 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. For many Filipinos, a slightly slower but rock‑solid 100 Mbps line is now more desirable than a “300 Mbps” plan that feels like a slot machine every evening. Read more in our articles including "Reddit to block Internet Archive Wayback Machine" and "PH among slowest countries in shift away from 3G".
Reddit has announced that they will block the Wayback Machine due to AI companies. 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. For many Filipinos, a slightly slower but rock‑solid 100 Mbps line is now more desirable than a “300 Mbps” plan that feels like a slot machine every evening.
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