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

Reddit has moved to restrict the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine from indexing most of its platform after identifying that some artificial intelligence companies have been using archived Reddit content for data scraping in ways that violate its policies.

The Internet Archive's Wayback Machine is the latest victim of Reddit's crackdown on data access. The company has begun to place new restrictions on what the archive site will be able to access in a move that will significantly limit the Wayback Machine's ability to preserve information from Reddit.