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

submitted 2 days 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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[–] DFX4509B@lemmy.wtf 35 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Redlib still works, for now. I'm using this instance currently.

The login wall is probably gonna kill Redlib though, so read it while you still can.

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[–] martin@lemmy.caliban.io 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I use old. as the only way to access reddit, but I've noticed that more and more pages are sending me to the new pages. I tried new for a day the other day and didn't really like it. So I guess I'll use it until old is gone.

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[–] Pueblo@feddit.org 7 points 1 day ago (2 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

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[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (5 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

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[–] TheRedSpade@lemmy.world 24 points 1 day ago

Oh no! Anyway...

[–] snausagesinablanket@lemmy.world 23 points 2 days ago (11 children)

What's Reddit?

[–] bagsy@lemmy.world 20 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Propaganda machine.

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[–] farting_gorilla@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I've been using RedReader to view the 2-3 subreddits that don't have an equivalent here on Lemmy. Hope those still work...

[–] Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I think redreader has official permission to use the API because it has a disability focus.

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[–] thoralf@discuss.familie-will.at 6 points 1 day 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 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

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