Reddit has blocked the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine from indexing most of its content, citing evidence that AI firms are using it to bypass licensing fees and scrape user data.

The social media platform claims it's to protect users' privacy, but money appears to be the more motivating factor.

If you have ever relied on the Wayback Machine to dig up an old Reddit post or see a thread that has since vanished, that window is about to close. Reddit