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

submitted 2 months 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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[–] fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 months ago

Just in time for them to lock my old account.

[–] demonquark@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 weeks ago

Saw this post a month ago. I still had access to old.reddit. Figured they eventually cut me off.

Today they finally cut me off. I guess that’s it.

[–] ZiemekZ@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

[–] muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago

Oh? Guess what I require old.reddit.com to do?

[–] User79185@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 months ago

MOTHERFUCKER

[–] artyom@piefed.social 1 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Even Strava has locked me out at this point...

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[–] some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

There are many instances of Redlib which can be used to sidestep reddit dot com. I'd recommend finding a few good ones if you find yourself getting info from reddit very often. Or better yet, host your own.

What I would like to know, though, is what is the best way to automatically use a Redlib instance whenever I click a reddit dot com link on my device. I have an app from f-droid called "sidestep" which works ok but not great. I'm looking for something which ideally works on both android and Linux.

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