Can't do anonymous browsing of old Reddit and now you can't do anonymous browsing of new Reddit either.
This is good because it drives people away from Reddit
this post was submitted on 11 Aug 2026
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It definitely drove me away. And I've never had an account there.
Fucking finally reddit is curing my insomnia driven browsing of bestofredditorupdates.
Very annoying, there's a lot of tech support stuff on reddit that I now can't access without logging in. Guess I'll need to make a burner for work.
No need for a burner reddit account. If your job allows you to install the Firefox browser, you can install libRedirect on your own. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/libredirect/
How long is that going to work when everything needs an account on reddit?
libRedirect redirects to a privacy frontend like Redlib which scrapes from Reddit, allowing you to anonymously browse it.
EDIT: it'll work as long as reddit doesn't get like youtube, with its war against privacy frontends.
Have you read my comment?
Yes. and I just added an extra to my own. So read that answer.
What else do you think this is about lol
I have libredirect, but none of the instances seem to support old.reddit.com.
WDYM? The instances have their own frontend, they just source the content from Reddit
Yeah I realize I was completely wrong about how they work, my bad. What I suppose I mean is that all the instances I tried either looked too much like the new layout (I think they might've all been redlib) or were just dead. Are there any that look more like the old interface?
ah, well that IDK. Sorry
I'm deeply in love with mainstream enshittification, it's radicalizing people against corporationism and bringing attention to FOSS solutions.
Remember when it was a badge of honor to work for FAANG, MAAMA, whatever you call it?
We're obviously living in a geeky bubble here on lemmy, but I feel like people in general are growing super skeptical when it comes to their attitude towards american corporations.
the most real place on the internet
If one means real-ly badly infested with Langley bots.
Wonder if they'll ever remember to force my old ass account to connect an email to it. Wouldn't mind because it would actually make me leave lol
they may just ban you for vague security reasons and ask you to confirm your nonexistent email
we have suspended your account for suspicious activity (not having a verified email on file).
Here's some more info about this: https://www.neowin.net/news/following-old-reddit-new-reddit-may-be-forcing-mandatory-account-log-in-to-access-as-well/
EDIT: I have since turned on LibRedirect to view any R*ddit content.
Reddit may soon require login for browsing, citing anti-scraping efforts, potentially ending anonymous guest access entirely.
They're trying to protect their precious data that they already sold to AI firms? That's shutting the barn door after the horses have bolted.
And it doesn't make any sense. Bots can easily change where they're scraping... only blocking "old" still allows it thru "new".
Sure it slows down any old bots, but its programming 101 to scrape sites. Or, like... people will just make an account to scrape?? Especially """"ai"""" bros, they can just spin up whatever to proxy through and get around whatever bs they throw up.
Just the laziest lying I've ever seen.
Just the laziest lying I've ever seen.
This Trumpian era is so weird. People and companies follow Trump's lead. They say the most ridiculous lies and then double down. Nothing matters.
Or, like... people will just make an account to scrape??
Making an account requires a fresh email address and a captcha solve and now you've turned this from 101 into something requiring more effort. It can't be bulletproof, but getting rid of the lowest hanging fruit makes the rest of it more manageable for site operators.
That said, reddits explanation is still disingenuous.
Seconding libRedirect. Its very easy to set up and typically seamless. It also supports other sites like redirecting X to XCancel.
Must have browser addon
I've been using LibRedirect for while and Redlib is the one service that I can pretty much always find a working mirror. I also prefer the Redlib interface over both the old and new official one.
I can still access old.reddit.com?
Think they're still doing AB testing.
Makes sense, that's really annoying that they're doing that tho.
I think so too, I can still lurk on old.reddit.com. My city has a surprisingly good subreddit that I lurk on to keep up on local events and news, and I don't need to login yet. I'll probably just abandon reddit once and for all if/when the forced login affects me.
I noticed it forces to log in when using my old Samsung A52, but not on my new flagship phone, which makes me wonder if there's classism involved.
Nope. Not without signing in.
EDIT: ~~or not without using something like LibRedirect~~: https://github.com/libredirect/browser_extension & https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/libredirect/
EDIT 2: forget what I said about using libRedirect with old.reddit as you wouldn't need to access old.reddit using a privacy frontend. You just get reddit.
Had it blocked yesterday for the first time.
Same here, we must simply be built different
I've been getting this:
For some reason F5 doesn't work, but closing the tab and reopening it with ctrl+shift+T gets around it in firefox.
How did they manage to draw this smug fucker as the perfect representation of the median redditor
I just go to reddit.com and then old.reddit works from there
I have been blocked by the grand teletubbie
Use old.reddit.com. Or better yet, don't use reddit at all.
They also demand to install their shitty app. I don't get why I need an app to browse a basic website, I have a perfectly functional web browser right fucking here!
Edit: oh shit, is old.reddit.com dead? Not visiting reddit anymore lol
They are killing old.reddit. it hasn't worked for me for about three weeks. This is stage 2.
Interesting they would do this. I’d noticed Reddit becoming somewhat mainstream over the last year with people mentioning it as a source of information for niche things and I know they just browsed without making an account. Guess that’ll come to an end.
Reddit's been extremely mainstream for like a decade now
reddit has been like top 5 most visited sites in the US for over 10 years