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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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[–] laurenceOfSuburbia@lemmy.world 15 points 13 hours ago (3 children)

Go into your reddit accounts and advocate for lemmy

[–] CultLeader4Hire@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

If I wasn’t completely banned from Reddit maybe lol

[–] laurenceOfSuburbia@lemmy.world 1 points 1 minute ago* (last edited 33 seconds ago)

bro. new mac on a router = new ip. new email = done.
perma banned 17 times
I only use it to shitpost and steal content. its a bad place

[–] osanna@lemmy.vg 1 points 1 hour ago

same haha. I ONLY use a vpn online, and they banned the VPN IPs. if i went on there without a VPN, they'd require my ID as I'm in a country that requires ID for social media. And that sure as fucking shit isn't fucking happening.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 points 4 hours ago

hopefully reddits own filter, or subreddits dont ban you quickly

[–] 87Six@lemmy.zip 2 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

yea nah, we don't want most of those idiots here, they can stay on their stupid surveillance app

[–] NostraDavid@programming.dev 1 points 40 minutes ago

Eh, there are a few minor communities I would want to invite. The rest can proverbially burn with the platform.