India, Aug. 12 -- Reddit has hit pause on the Wayback Machine's ability to archive most of its site. This isn't about homepage nostalgia, it's about preserving subreddits, threads, and comment chains that AI companies have been gobbling up behind the scenes.

Reddit says it discovered that some AI developers were quietly scraping content from the Wayback Machine, then using that data to train models, without licensing or permission. It's part of a broader trend of platforms cracking down on free data access in favour of paid agreements. Now, the Wayback Machine can only index Reddit's homepage, posts, comments, and user profiles are off-limits.

They gave the Internet Archive a heads-up, which at least is something. Still, this move marks...