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Reddit will require you to log in to use old.reddit.com (arstechnica.com)
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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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[–] jtrek@startrek.website 20 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

Most people seem to not even have any notion of how things can be better. They never even think to look up like "block ads". They just take whatever fuckery they get

[–] HCSOThrowaway@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago

Another reminder that the average IQ is 100.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

I really like listening to Amy Poehler's podcast, and there is a running joke that whenever she pulls up YouTube on air, she has to sit through ads.

And guests will kind of rib her for it, but they do it because she hasn't paid for YouTube to get rid of ads. Always like, "omg you still haven't just paid for YouTube?! I can't believe you have ads!"

Like... Are most people simply unaware that ad blockers exist? I've never watched a YouTube ad, nor have I paid a dime to them for anything. I will simply not use YouTube before ever sitting through a single ad.

I just don't understand how people can be so strangely incurious as to not even wonder if there's a way to stop this bullshit.