Reddit will block the Internet Archive

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.

Fuck u/spez.

All the more reason to leave
Proving once again why hes spezial

Reddit can go die in a fire

Reddit is the new Facebook. Soon to be followed by AI. Knowledge for the ignorant. Quacks.
- I used to love reddit, about a decade ago. It's been enshittified so much now that I don't enjoy using it. I went back there the other day, and my account inbox had several messages, even though I haven't posted there in months. All engagement bots asking inane questions.

I'll never forget the day Garfield got his breasts.

2025 does seem like an assault across all fronts against tech and privacy enjoyers

Internet is being turned into corpos Paradise where everything is monitored and that data is used against you in so many novel ways that it breaks the normies' brain.

The datahoarders are being proven right by the day.

It seems prudent to get any important resources out of America before they are shut down or corrupted by gaslighter editors. This includes crucial America-focused data resources like the (US)CDC.
We have to use different websites. Be the resistance
- Ma'am, this is a fedi

”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,” spokesperson Tim Rathschmidt tells The Verge.

So then go after the AI companies for violating your platform policies, not the archive. Reddit does believe in the open internet, right? You're not just using this as an excuse to further wall off the content your users have created?

Alright time to archive redlib then

what is redlib?
- Reddit privacy frontend.

The fact that these incredibly well funded companies have the arrogance to believe they have the right to hammer the Internet Archive's limited resources for their own gain is disgusting.

Well I mean... They do. What're you gonna do about? Cry?
I know that might seem harsh but like, I don't believe that there is anything most internet users can do about this except for learn to live with it. And the business executives and shareholders that only see dollar signs and Pay Piggies know it too. People keep complaining, but companies keep doing this kind of thing basically unconstested, and if they ever are contested, they will just bury you in legal fees until you give up. Even if you and i don't pay for their products (as much as we can, sometimes these people are in charge of actual life necessities), they know there is a sucker born every second just dying to shower them with money. It never ends.

Everything of value that will ever be on Reddit has already been posted and archived.

If anything this is just saving IA some storage space that would have otherwise been useless garbage

Disgusting.

Reddit: Trust us we're GENIUSES bro, most popular web site in the world, we're so smart I swear

Also Reddit: Hey can we have more money, we lost it all again. This new plan's gonna work tho

So Spez feels he can profit from the users discussions, but he has a problem with someone else doing the same thing.

Get fucked, dickface.

So we can just build a proxy that redirects to internet archive...

Can't have the IA getting it for free when Google is paying for it. Reddit management is a bunch of morons.

Leave the information architecture out of this.

Little fucking asshole tightening up the noose to spite its older userbase while pleasing the shareholders and the right-wing techbro gang led by that apartheid beneficiary.

Oh, die already!

Xitter blocked it recently as well…

Oh no it will stop archiving the spam bots and Russian instigators, while all the old content that was actually good and useful will still be archived.