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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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[–] VITecNet@programming.dev 12 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Something useful: Libredirect.

[–] FunStuffIsFun@eviltoast.org 4 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Yep. I like it better than old.reddit and I only end up on reddit from search engines anymore. Its too damn bad. There was a good 6 or 7 years (for me) when reddit was pretty damn awesome; now it is a dumpster fire. The suits ruined our fun.

[–] VITecNet@programming.dev 1 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (1 children)

You can redirect any Reddit link's to a privacy respecting frontend, this extension is for Firefox or Chromium.

[–] FunStuffIsFun@eviltoast.org 1 points 10 hours ago

Oh my bad, yeah I have totally been using that extension for about 2 years now and I love it.