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Reddit will require you to log in to use old.reddit.com (arstechnica.com)

submitted 13 hours ago by breakfastmtn@lemmy.ca to c/technology@lemmy.world

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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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[–] petco34@lemmy.world 6 points 52 minutes ago

I finally switched over. The changes to reddit mobile were awful, this broke the camel’s strained back.

[–] Landless2029@lemmy.world 16 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Gotta hand it to Reddit though.

Somehow they keep coming up with ways to piss off more people.

[–] KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 2 points 34 minutes ago

Are they? It seems like reddit's main user base is bots and AI.

[–] spicehoarder@lemmy.zip 10 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Reddit is dead, it's best we start treating it as such

[–] thatGuyWithGlasses@lemmy.world 3 points 53 minutes ago

Exactly the reason why I'm here...

[–] GutterRat42@lemmy.world 2 points 26 minutes ago

I check Reddit like once a week since I started using Lemmy. I guess it will be down to nonce per week

[–] hansolo@lemmy.today 3 points 50 minutes ago

Ooof, is Redlib going to crash out then?

[–] green_goglin@thelemmy.club 16 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Obligatory “fuck u/spez”

[–] berno@lemmy.world 6 points 1 hour ago

Spez is a greedy little piggy

[–] limer@lemmy.ml 3 points 42 minutes ago

I guess this will break millions of search links built up over the years

[–] berno@lemmy.world 8 points 1 hour ago

What a piece of shit company

Their ad copy now says stuff like "join the realest place on the internet!" Pretty funny when more than half the users are bots or otherwise bad actors there to forum slide or otherwise build consensus

Reddit is a disinformation fusion center modded by types like Ghislane Maxwell, nothing more. Don't forget. Delete that cancer from your life

[–] Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 24 points 2 hours ago

Honestly, one of the few optimistic news I’ve gotten in the last week. Tells me quitting Reddit was a smart move.

[–] Pueblo@feddit.org 8 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Well got permabanned anyway. Seems like ibhad an old Account which was banned. I didnt even remember. I did make a new account some days ago and got banned for breaking the rules(avoiding the ban with another account) fine, i deleted that Account aswell :D

[–] Hueristic_Autistic@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago

Same fuck reddit. 60% is AI

[–] nevyn@slrpnk.net 17 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Reddit would like to be the only evil entity scraping reddit

[–] deliriousdreams@fedia.io 3 points 1 hour ago

Well. Besides Google who are paying for the privilege.

[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 1 points 59 minutes ago

Byyyeeeee

[–] MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world 14 points 3 hours ago

Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.

[–] eleitl@lemmy.zip 26 points 3 hours ago (3 children)

I still read one subreddit regularly via old.reddit.com, via VPN without logging in. I guess I will stop now.

[–] cmbabul@slrpnk.net 7 points 2 hours ago

Guess it’s time for me to start back on building the sports communities on the fediverse, goodbye forever /r/cfb

[–] TheWilliamist@lemmy.world 5 points 2 hours ago

Same, minus the VPN. I popped on to check my community subs.

[–] treesapx@lemmy.world 13 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

I'm in a similar boat. Deleted my accounts. Visit a few old communities that are hard to move on from, but old.reddit has always been my line in the sand.

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago

Yeah, I deleted mine in 2023.

I've only used reddit once since, to get recommendations for a good e-scooter brand. It's just not something I need enough to jump through unnecessary hoops.

[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 6 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

surprised they still have old.reddt available. before i got kicked out they were planning on shutting it down to force everyone onto the new shit. made my ban less painful

[–] placebo@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 56 minutes ago) (1 children)

It is available, but it isn't convenient in this day and age where 95% of posts are media files - and they redirect you to the new website when you open a photo/video.

[–] dirthawker0@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

Plus it's always prompting you to get their app if you scroll down a half a page in old.reddit on your phone. You can get around this by setting desktop mode but I'm sure they'll figure out a way to get around that too.

Facebook does the same thing by breaking features that worked in the browser to try to force you to their app. Sucks

[–] DudeImMacGyver@kbin.earth 23 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Remember to scramble all your posts before you leave if you're still in that shithole.

[–] nullspace@lemmy.world 8 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

Or just get banned. It'll hide all your posts.

[–] nevyn@slrpnk.net 5 points 2 hours ago

Unless that is just an old.reddit thing, that does not appear to be the case

reddit have banned me multiple times, for no reason, and for reasons that they make up. I occasionally stumble on my old posts with user just listed as 'deleted'

[–] forkDestroyer@infosec.pub 5 points 4 hours ago

Will it hide them from the scrapers, though?

[–] thoralf@discuss.familie-will.at 5 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

I have started to block reddit as much as a I can already.

I wish, there would be an option in Lemmy/PieFed to hide any article that references reddit.

[–] breakfastmtn@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 hours ago

You can set up filters in both to do just that.

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