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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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[–] laurenceOfSuburbia@lemmy.world 22 points 1 day ago (6 children)

Go into your reddit accounts and advocate for lemmy

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 points 18 hours ago

hopefully reddits own filter, or subreddits dont ban you quickly

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[–] jpreston2005@lemmy.world 41 points 1 day ago (6 children)

old.reddit is the only way I use it. this goes away, I delete my account.

The support forums like r/stopdrinking and r/CPTSD have been lifesavers for me, but reddit just keeps finding new ways to be terrible. RIP Aaron Swartz

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[–] Landless2029@lemmy.world 58 points 1 day ago (9 children)

Gotta hand it to Reddit though.

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

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

STOP TALKING ABOUT REDDIT!

[–] ButtermilkBiscuit@feddit.nl 6 points 22 hours ago

What the fuck is reddit?

[–] TwinTitans@lemmy.world 25 points 1 day ago

Reddit can suck my balls.

[–] Gsus4@mander.xyz 15 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

ok, just add this to your duckduckgo searches:

-reddit

😉👌 done

[–] Sarie@lemmy.world 3 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

You don't need to. You can actually block a website from appearing in results as long as you keep duckduckgo cookies.

Click the three dots besides a result and select "Block this site from all results".

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[–] sonofearth@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

ok then i go to frontends. if that also shuts down, then bye bye reddit.

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[–] zerofk@lemmy.zip 148 points 1 day ago (4 children)

You can still visit - and scrape - the new Reddit without logging in, so the scraping is obviously just an excuse for what everyone saw coming from the start: the gradual complete shutdown of old Reddit.

[–] nieceandtows@programming.dev 2 points 18 hours ago

Actually new reddit page source doesn't load comments anymore. You need to execute JavaScript in the page for comments now. Old reddit still gives you a simple page with comments, so probably why they made it login only. You can't legally scrape pages behind login because you agreed to their tos by logging in

[–] EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com 1 points 16 hours ago

New Reddit is such a shit tier interface though.

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[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 22 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Stop Using the Bad Site. Just stop doing it.

[–] PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@feddit.uk 17 points 1 day ago (13 children)

I did for two years. This place is great so long as you like talking about trump, tech and trek. Anything involving special interests outside of those though, Reddit has it.

Reddit was so surprised I was back it assumed my account was compromised and permananned me.

My VPN use probably didn't help either

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (1 children)

they ban you even if go too hard on trump. people arnt just seeing the astroturfing for trump on reddit. after the election, it was very chaotic on reddit, they were banning people left and right spez was definitely cleaning house for IPO, and to appease the gop once he fully came to power last year. spez acted everytime musk ask him to ban people.

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[–] spicehoarder@lemmy.zip 27 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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

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[–] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

[–] Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 31 points 1 day ago

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

[–] eleitl@lemmy.zip 37 points 1 day ago (4 children)

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

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[–] green_goglin@thelemmy.club 24 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Obligatory “fuck u/spez”

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[–] nevyn@slrpnk.net 26 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Reddit would like to be the only evil entity scraping reddit

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[–] ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 day ago

To be honest, I thought they already required that. They just want to keep killing their site, but people refuse to switch over to Lemmy, so niche communities only remain on Reddit and Discord. It's very disheartening. People are morons. There, I said it.

[–] Lexam@lemmy.world 167 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Do I have to login to use Lemmy? No, no I do not.

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 202 points 1 day ago (12 children)

Bruh you don't even have to be using lemmy to use lemmy. I seen @mastadon people all the time up in here.

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[–] Raiderkev@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm not surprised, I was using it to visit NSFW subs for uh research recently in an incognito tab. It kept flagging me and not letting me in. Said I could log in if I think it's an error. Like MF, I am specifically not logged in on purpose.

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[–] DudeImMacGyver@kbin.earth 34 points 1 day ago (10 children)

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

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