{"id":954385,"date":"2025-08-12T11:14:44","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T05:44:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=954385"},"modified":"2025-08-12T12:13:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T06:43:07","slug":"reddit-locks-out-wayback-machine-to-stop-ai-from-scraping-old-posts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/08\/12\/reddit-locks-out-wayback-machine-to-stop-ai-from-scraping-old-posts\/","title":{"rendered":"Reddit locks out Wayback machine to stop AI from scraping old posts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reddit has announced that it will restrict the Internet Archive\u2019s Wayback Machine to archiving only its homepage, blocking the tool from saving most of its site\u2019s content. This change comes as a direct response to increasing concerns about AI companies scraping Reddit data through the Wayback Machine, possibly risking Reddit\u2019s content policies and violating user privacy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reddit has announced that it will restrict the Internet Archive\u2019s Wayback Machine to archiving only its homepage, blocking the tool from saving most of its site\u2019s content. This change comes as a direct response to increasing concerns about AI companies scraping Reddit data through the Wayback Machine, possibly risking Reddit\u2019s content policies and violating user privacy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-954385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=954385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954385\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=954385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=954385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=954385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}