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か月前

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か月前

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 · 3か月前

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

AmbitiousProcess (they/them)@piefed.social · 3か月前

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