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

arstechnica.com English

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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    Logged-out Old Reddit access is “significant source of abusive scraping."
    • M0oP0o@mander.xyzEnglish
      42 minutes

      Oh they dont like people using their website as a website? Guess this is an issue that will solve itself.

      • ryan213@lemmy.caEnglish
        56 minutes

        Never heard of it before but when I typed it, it went to redlib - which is what I use. Lol

    • HCSOThrowaway@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3 hours

      Evidently not enough people left Reddit due to their last enshittification measure, so the enshittification will continue.

      • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        2 hours

        If I’ve learned anything over the past decade, it’s that people in general will put up with an astonishing level of enshittification

    • Raiderkev@lemmy.world
      English
      3 hours

      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.

    • jpreston2005@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4 hours

      old.reddit is the only way I use it. this goes away, I delete my account.

      The support forums like r/stopdrinking and r/CPTSD have been lifesavers for me, but reddit just keeps finding new ways to be terrible. RIP Aaron Swartz

      • PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@feddit.ukEnglish
        4 hours

        I did for two years. This place is great so long as you like talking about trump, tech and trek. Anything involving special interests outside of those though, Reddit has it.

        Reddit was so surprised I was back it assumed my account was compromised and permananned me.

        My VPN use probably didn’t help either

        • HCSOThrowaway@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3 hours

          FYI lemmy.world is hostile to VPNs too; I just had to switch servers because it wouldn’t let me post a comment due to VPN use.

        • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
          4 hours

          Reddit was so surprised I was back it assumed my account was compromised and permananned me.

          Reddit is Ground Zero for Empty Internet Theory.

          • PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@feddit.ukEnglish
            4 hours

            Specific games I like

            Local (and I do mean local) discussion

            Brewing

            Caravanning

            Car stuff (communities around the specific make/model of car I own)

            Etc…

          • HCSOThrowaway@lemmy.worldEnglish
            3 hours

            1. My city’s subreddit is very active (though the moderators recently went mad with power). I’m actively stealing their content to grow the Lemmy community for it.

            2. People talk about legal stuff a lot on Reddit, including asking (ex-)cops questions about them (because lots of (ex-)cops use Reddit).

    • Landless2029@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6 hours

      Gotta hand it to Reddit though.

      Somehow they keep coming up with ways to piss off more people.

      • merc@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        3 hours

        Enshittification. They have their users locked in, and now it’s about trying to make money for their advertisers.

    • Diizzsliime@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4 hours

      Just one of many reasons I have navigated here. A text-based social media platform has somehow become a rebellion.

    • petco34@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5 hours

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

    • Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      7 hours

      Honestly, one of the few optimistic news I’ve gotten in the last week. Tells me quitting Reddit was a smart move.

    • GutterRat42@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5 hours

      I check Reddit like once a week since I started using Lemmy. I guess it will be down to nonce per week

        • OneCardboardBox@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
          3 hours

          Nonce is used extensively in the context of cryptography to mean “used exactly one time”. Usually this refers to a random number that a server shares with a client to establish secure communications.

        • JcbAzPx@lemmy.worldEnglish
          4 hours

          That’s what it’s supposed to mean? Because that is not the context I’ve ever seen it used in.