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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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[–] HCSOThrowaway@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago (2 children)

FYI lemmy.world is hostile to VPNs too; I just had to switch servers because it wouldn't let me post a comment due to VPN use.

[–] Zedd_Prophecy@lemmy.world 2 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

This happens to me a lot. I have a user ID and password, what does it matter that I'm using a vpn to post a comment?

[–] HCSOThrowaway@lemmy.world 2 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

I did an AskLemmy post about it a few months ago: https://lemmy.world/post/43898917?scrollToComments=true

As you can see, there's not even consensus on whether or not VPNs are in fact being treated differently, let alone why. There are some in that thread that insist it's a great idea, too.

[–] Zedd_Prophecy@lemmy.world 1 points 46 minutes ago

Thanks that was informative.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today -1 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

seems like dbzero is also very hostile, wierdly havnt been on most of those communities, but im banned there for some reason. did tankies take over that instance.

[–] HCSOThrowaway@lemmy.world 1 points 11 hours ago

There's a way to View Moderation History on yourself and others on Lemmy. Sometimes the people that ban you leave an explanation. Sometimes they think it's obvious or you're beneath them so they don't.