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Reddit will require you to log in to use old.reddit.com (arstechnica.com)
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Reddit will start requiring people to be logged into Reddit to use old.reddit.com.

The new requirement will take effect “over the next month,” a Reddit employee going by the username boat-botany announced on the social media platform today. The person claimed that the change is part of an ongoing effort to “tighten how automated systems access Reddit.”

The Reddit employee wrote:

Old Reddit’s logged-out experience is a significant source of abusive scraping and automated traffic on the platform. It’s also an important interface for many long-time mods and Redditors. To strike the right balance between preserving your access to Old Reddit while preventing abusive scraping and automated traffic, over the next month we will start requiring everyone to log in.

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[–] kazerniel@lemmy.world 4 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

uh

Nonce - British slang for pedophile

[–] OneCardboardBox 5 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

Nonce is used extensively in the context of cryptography to mean "used exactly one time". Usually this refers to a random number that a server shares with a client to establish secure communications.

[–] nshibj@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Excuse me if this a stupid question (I'm not a native English speaker), but isn't that what "once" means?

[–] OneCardboardBox 1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

The difference is small and pedantic:

"Once" means "A single time"

"Nonce" means "Used a single time"

Nonce carries extra information that something is being used.

Wikipedia claims this term dates to middle English:

Nonce is a word dating back to Middle English for something only used once or temporarily (often with the construction "for the nonce"). It descends from the construction "then anes" ("the one [purpose]").

[–] nshibj@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

OK, thanks for the explanation. So basically "nonce = used once"

[–] kazerniel@lemmy.world 1 points 9 hours ago

thanks, interesting :)

[–] JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 1 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (2 children)

That's what it's supposed to mean? Because that is not the context I've ever seen it used in.

[–] optimisticturtle@lemmy.world 2 points 51 minutes ago

Yeah I thought a nonce was a dumbass.

[–] kazerniel@lemmy.world 3 points 10 hours ago

yeah that's the only meaning I see it used with in the UK