The Internet Archive's Wayback Machine is the latest victim of Reddit's crackdown on data access. The company has begun to place new restrictions on what the archive site will be able to access in a move that will significantly limit the Wayback Machine's ability to preserve information from Reddit.

The social media platform claims it's to protect users' privacy, but money appears to be the more motivating factor.

AI scraping concerns are driving Reddit to restrict the Internet Archive to only its homepage, cutting off post and comment archives.