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Reddit forces login to access old.reddit.com (arstechnica.com)
submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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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[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 day ago (2 children)

What are they going to do when they kill the rest of the olds that contributed and built that site?

My local subreddit replaced the mod during the APIpocalypse and it has turned to next door style whining and bickering. Then there are the also-whining counter whiners, and the shills.

[–] rafoix@lemmy.zip 5 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

What are they going to do when they kill the rest of the olds that contributed and built that site?

They don't care. Investors only want to monetize the current visitors. They have zero interest in what made the website good in the first place.

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

now its mostly the data that can train the AI, adverts can be blocked on reddit.

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

sounds like bots to me. im betting the "new mod" is one of the supermods/cahoots with the admins.