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 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