In August 2025 Reddit spokesperson Tim Rathschmidt has said that the Internet Archive has been unable to “defend their site and comply with platform policies. This includes respecting user privacy by deleting removed content” and have now officially blocked the Wayback Machine from scraping user generated content on Reddit, leaving only the home page where the Wayback Machine can still index news and popular posts. If more social media websites do this in the future it would mean that their users’ right to privacy would no longer be infringed by the Wayback Machine while it could continue to preserve the history of said website.