At least 3 major outlets — The New York Times, The Guardian, and Reddit — have blocked the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine from accessing their content

Innerworld@lemmy.world · 3 days ago

At least 3 major outlets — The New York Times, The Guardian, and Reddit — have blocked the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine from accessing their content

AmbitiousProcess (they/them)@piefed.social · 3 days ago

They think AI companies are using it as a “backdoor” to scrape their content. Which is patently ridiculous, but that won’t stop them.

Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 2 days ago

reddit already allows AI to scrape the site, specifically google.

AmbitiousProcess (they/them)@piefed.social · 1 day ago

reddit already allows AI to scrape the site

*for a fee

If the wayback machine was an actually workable backdoor to Reddit’s content, none of these companies would ever have any reason to pay them, and that’s what they’re scared about.

At least 3 major outlets — The New York Times, The Guardian, and Reddit — have blocked the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine from accessing their content

At least 3 major outlets — The New York Times, The Guardian, and Reddit — have blocked the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine from accessing their content

Not In Our Back Yard: Publishers Block Wayback Machine