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Reddit will require you to log in to use old.reddit.com (arstechnica.com)
submitted 1 day 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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[–] DudeImMacGyver@kbin.earth 34 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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

[–] nullspace@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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

[–] nevyn@slrpnk.net 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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'

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today -1 points 19 hours ago

reddit likely is using new method of automatically removing keywords from subs.

[–] forkDestroyer@infosec.pub 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Will it hide them from the scrapers, though?

[–] JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Not the ones that pay. They save even deleted posts and likely do versioning to get around the spite mass edits.

[–] Bo7a@piefed.ca 4 points 1 day ago

I'm (hopefully) not even a percent as evil as the reddit folks and I immediately thought of ways to monetize the scrambled text.

Now you have huge differential datasets of original "humanlike content" to compare to "bad/scrambled" content to include in your whoring out of your userbase's creative works.

[–] lemmyvore@feddit.nl 2 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Can you even do that anymore? AFAIK Reddit now caps the amount of comment history they show you so how do you find your comments to change them?

I guess if you're EU you can request a dump of all your data as a GDPR request and find the permalinks for all your comments in there.

[–] SuspiciousCarrot78@aussie.zone 2 points 22 hours ago

Does shreddit not work any more?

[–] optimisticturtle@lemmy.world 1 points 23 hours ago

I used redact. You get banned from subreddits as you scramble your comment history which is amusing.

[–] DudeImMacGyver@kbin.earth 1 points 1 day ago

News to me, last I knew you could even use scripts or an app to automate it.