Privacy

This is masks off moment for old.reddit. They have already done device fingerprinting, usage analytics, IP address retention, and cookies before, so not asking for email was rather symbolic, token privacy feature anyway. Removing it only confirms what's already been there for years.

Use redlib, it's nice. You can disable JavaScript and use it through Tor for complete security and anonymity, subscribe to subreddits, and it also has a lot of themes to customize your experience with.

And you can export your settings and subscriptions to import on another redlib instance anytime, so you are never locked in using only one instance forever.

I just found this out naturally and immediately came to lemmy to see if someone's posted about it.

Seriously I don't want a reddit account and old.reddit.com without logging in has been a great way of checking up on the odd thing without having an account and being stuck in the dark patterns that keep you engaging

Killing 3rd party apps and allowing bots to run free spewing garbage spelled the end of Reddit a while ago. It's been shambling along, zombified, but the rot is too systemic.

Thank goodness I was banned about a year ago. Only thing I miss are the sales communities!

r/hardwaresales, r/avexchange, r/homelabsales, etc

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.

Quote from the article.

Redlib is really the last bastion that keeps Reddit usable for me. Once it falls, I will completely quit the plattform.

Still annoyed they killed .compact. Old reddit is probably on the chopping block too.