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Reddit will block the Internet Archive
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this post was submitted on 11 Aug 2025
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As long as the previous collections of archives are still intact. We probably don’t need all of their new spam posts in the wayback machine anyway
It is my understanding that if you block the wayback machine from indexing your site it will also delist the history as well.
They do archive sites against the owners wishes when they consider it an important site for public archiving, like some news sites. They are in no obligation to delete the archives and hope they don’t.
Parties have archived the data from pushshift, which cover a lot of Reddit history.
kagis
https://academictorrents.com/details/1614740ac8c94505e4ecb9d88be8bed7b6afddd4
I mean, that won't have the past half year or some low-traffic subreddits, but...
The ability to block crawling is separate from the ability to delist old pages. The latter usually happens after domains change owners
LOL I should have scrolled down. You said what I said, with fewer words, first.