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Reddit will require you to log in to use old.reddit.com (arstechnica.com)
submitted 1 day 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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[–] zerofk@lemmy.zip 143 points 1 day ago (4 children)

You can still visit - and scrape - the new Reddit without logging in, so the scraping is obviously just an excuse for what everyone saw coming from the start: the gradual complete shutdown of old Reddit.

[–] EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com 1 points 5 hours ago

New Reddit is such a shit tier interface though.

[–] nieceandtows@programming.dev 2 points 8 hours ago

Actually new reddit page source doesn't load comments anymore. You need to execute JavaScript in the page for comments now. Old reddit still gives you a simple page with comments, so probably why they made it login only. You can't legally scrape pages behind login because you agreed to their tos by logging in

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 13 points 23 hours ago

Yeah, this is them closing holes in their blocking browser access over a VPN. And also tracking their users so they can sell data to advertisers.

[–] kazerniel@lemmy.world 4 points 22 hours ago

I think scrapers typically run with javascript disabled, and new reddit doesn't load at all that way