List of companies that block Internet Archive

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This is an early/inherently incomplete list of companies who took the lead their websites purposefully blacklisted/excluded from the Internet Archive (IA) for various reasons, whether for malice reasons (plausible deniability) or not. For these websites, utilize other archive websites found here.

Unless there's a way for IA to have the content but not make it available to train AI, a large proportion of content sites will be blocking it, in order to avoid their content being available to train AI. So the list is very incomplete. For example, it was reported in April of 2023 "Twenty-three major news outlets, including The New York Times and USA Today have updated their robots.txt files to explicitly block the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine crawler."

There might be websites with Cloudflare DDoS protection, which falls in a grey area for archival purposes, though should not be listed on this article.

Companies

Company	Date (as of)	Source	Note
Bambu Lab	05 April 2026	[1]
Booking.com	16 July 2026	[2]
Capital One Shopping	19 July 2026	[3]
Deep Cycle Systems	22 April 2026	[4]	Captures before 2024 have been removed
Eneba.com	9 August 2026	[5]
Flock Safety	05 April 2026	[6]
Kia	05 August 2026	[7]	Appears to be for the entire kia.com domain, e.g. www.kia.com and owners.kia.com are excluded.
Life360	05 April 2026	[8]
Linktree	01 June 2026	[9]
Rockstar Games	05 April 2026	[10]	Support website only
Philips	03 July 2026	[11]	The exclusion prevents access to legacy product help pages and user manuals that are no longer provided by Philips.
WeRecoverData	13 July 2026	[12]	Site-wide exclusion; noted how archived URLs worked earlier in 2026.
Yelp	08 August 2026	[13]
Outbyte	19 August 2026	[14]	In 2023, they filed rogue DMCA takedown notices against YouTube videos criticizing them.