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Reddit forces login to access old.reddit.com (arstechnica.com)
submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by Redacted@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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As of a few minutes ago old.reddit.com now seems to requre logging in to access it.

Shame as it was still the best place to browse for info about some niche interests.

Edit: Seems like they might be testing the change as it is hit or miss at the moment.

Edit: Adding this to My flilters in uBlock Origin seems to fix the issue for the time being:

||reddit.com^$header=referer:

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[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 2 days ago (3 children)

maybe it was rolled out slowly over multiple regions. But it definitely started end of july. even the arstechnica post itself is alrady a week old

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 points 1 day ago

maybe ublock origin can block the popup, like it can with the FB login page. just gotta wait til someone makes the workaround.

[–] Redacted@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Maybe, seems some subreddits still work here. Not sure if testing. The article was about potential upcoming changes which I guess are nearly upon us.

[–] thejoker954@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

This is it exactly. It was hit or miss for a few weeks for me, some vpns would get the login some wouldn't. Some subreddits would get the login, but comments wouldn't.

Now it seems its all login all the time.