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

submitted 5 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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[–] MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world 18 points 4 days ago

Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.

[–] KickDownCH@feddit.org 24 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Perfect timing. Today i received a mail that in a few weeks i have to verfiy my age. So now i have two reasons to delete the account.

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[–] ohshit604@sh.itjust.works 21 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Got to shout Redlib from the rafters.

[–] just_an_average_joe@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 5 days ago (1 children)

What do they use? RSS? I always thought they used old.reddit

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[–] NickwithaC@lemmy.world 10 points 4 days ago (1 children)

STOP TALKING ABOUT REDDIT!

[–] ButtermilkBiscuit@feddit.nl 6 points 4 days ago

What the fuck is reddit?

[–] petco34@lemmy.world 14 points 4 days ago

I finally switched over. The changes to reddit mobile were awful, this broke the camel’s strained back.

[–] TheRedSpade@lemmy.world 24 points 5 days ago

Oh no! Anyway...

[–] snausagesinablanket@lemmy.world 23 points 5 days ago (11 children)

What's Reddit?

[–] bagsy@lemmy.world 20 points 5 days ago (4 children)

Propaganda machine.

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[–] Raiderkev@lemmy.world 11 points 4 days 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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[–] sonofearth@lemmy.world 9 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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

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[–] martin@lemmy.caliban.io 17 points 5 days 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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[–] berno@lemmy.world 11 points 4 days ago

What a piece of shit company

Their ad copy now says stuff like "join the realest place on the internet!" Pretty funny when more than half the users are bots or otherwise bad actors there to forum slide or otherwise build consensus

Reddit is a disinformation fusion center modded by types like Ghislane Maxwell, nothing more. Don't forget. Delete that cancer from your life

[–] Microtonal_Banana@lemmy.zip 9 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Redreader still works for Android

https://f-droid.org/packages/org.quantumbadger.redreader

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[–] farting_gorilla@lemmy.world 17 points 5 days 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 14 points 5 days ago (1 children)

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

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[–] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 7 points 4 days ago

[–] limer@lemmy.ml 9 points 4 days ago

I guess this will break millions of search links built up over the years

[–] ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml 7 points 4 days 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.

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