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Reddit to block the Internet Archive

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First post, by DosFreak

Posted on 2025-08-12, 00:04

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https://lifehacker.com/tech/its-about-to-get- … -reddit-threads

Yes, Reddit is about to start blocking the Internet Archive. The site, run by a nonprofit dedicated to preserving the open internet, is host to the Wayback Machine, a popular way to browse internet pages that are no longer active, or have changed significantly since they first went up. Simply enter a URL in the Machine's search box, and you'll be able to browse captures of what that page used to look like, sometimes going as far back as the 1990s.

"Internet Archive provides a service to the open web," Reddit spokesperson Tim Rathschmidt told the Verge, "but we've been made aware of instances where AI companies violate platform policies, including ours, and scrape data from the Wayback Machine."

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Reply 1 of 4, by Errius

Posted on 2025-08-13, 04:12

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What is probably going to happen is that IA will become a subscriber-only service targeted at news organizations similar to Lexis-Nexis.

So be prepared to pay $1000/month for access to old Geocities websites about Britney Spears.

Is this too much voodoo?

Reply 2 of 4, by jmarsh

Posted on 2025-08-13, 07:44

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Uh huh. This is absolutely about Reddit preventing their content from falling into the hands of big bad AIs and nothing at all to do with Reddit not wanting their content to be accessible without their ads.

Reply 3 of 4, by MrFlibble

Posted on 2025-08-15, 18:59

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Not really related, but I'm noticing that sites protected by Cloudflare are no longer preserved by the Wayback Machine properly, what you get instead of the page(s) you wanted to save is a "You have been blocked by Cloudflare, nothing to see here" page.

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Reply 4 of 4, by UCyborg

Posted on 2025-08-15, 19:52

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Sounds fit for my Dystopian internet thread.

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