Reddit says that it has caught AI companies scraping its data from the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine, so it’s going to start blocking the Internet Archive from indexing the vast majority of Reddit. The Wayback Machine will no longer be able to crawl post detail pages, comments, or profiles; instead, it will only be able to index the Reddit.com homepage, which effectively means Internet Archive will only be able to archive insights into which news headlines and posts were most popular on a given day.
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116 sats \ 1 reply \ @Scoresby 14h
Oh man, this is a bummer. I use the wayback to look at old reddit stuff pretty often. It's handy and sometimes the only way you can get little details that are no longer visible.
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102 sats \ 0 replies \ @nichro 10h
Curious about this use case, especially since you said you use it often.
Is it to view old comments that have been deleted or privacy'd by random text?
Or like to reminisce on vanished subs like r/the_donald in 2015?
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0 sats \ 3 replies \ @sudonaka 11h
Reddit needs to die
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30 sats \ 2 replies \ @Coinsreporter OP 11h
Reddit is already dead, can't die again.
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20 sats \ 1 reply \ @nichro 10h
It can & it needs to die more
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Coinsreporter OP 10h
Lol!
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @LAXITIVA 13h
They can only scrap if their actually scraping by in a poverty sense
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