Reddit is restricting its availability to the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine
13 days ago
- #Data Licensing
- #Internet Archive
- Reddit is restricting the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine from accessing most of its data.
- Previously exempt from rate limits, the Wayback Machine can now only crawl Reddit's homepage.
- Restrictions block access to comments, subreddit pages, post details, and profiles.
- This move is part of Reddit's broader crackdown on AI companies using its data without licensing fees.
- Reddit has signed multimillion-dollar deals with OpenAI and Google for data licensing.
- The company sued Anthropic earlier this year for unauthorized data scraping.
- Reddit's stance contrasts with last year's policy of not limiting 'good faith actors' like the Internet Archive.