Everyone say it with me now...
FUCK SPEZ!
this post was submitted on 11 Aug 2025
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…we’re limiting some of their access to Reddit data to protect redditors,”
This is the funniest, most transparent piece of PR bullshit I’ve seen today.
Reddit doesn’t want the Internet Archive to give away information that Reddit wants to sell. That’s ALL. Privacy never enters the equation.
Ha! That just means all the content deleted by users who left Reddit is actually inaccessible.
No, they reverted a lot of that. Bulk restoring even "overwritten" post data several weeks and months after the fact, after most people stopped checking.
Plus it's going forwards, so anything in the Archive already is still there.
My deleted posts have stayed deleted so far.
And they will victimblame themselves later!
"It’s another move to protect against AI scraping."
Not because they're against AI getting their data, oh no - because they SELL their data to google to use for their AI.
Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.
Problem is scraper bots are way more aggressive and harder to block. If they were ignoring Reddit because they were taking content from IA but IA is willing to obey robots.txt whereas scraper bots are not, they just shifted the load of serving the bots or playing whack-a-mole with their block evading mechanisms. They aren't going to stop the bots. It may result in being able to negotiate a license with the bigger guys, but that's likely not going to make up for the money they spend on dealing with the bots in the long run. Of course companies like this don't really think long term, it just looks good to investors this quarter.
Pfffft who cares let the bots fight the bots. Tis all that is left anyhoo.
Who?