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.
Fuck you spez.
So basically every link in Google will be login gated now?
What a sad day. The platform that exposed me to overseas opinions. 🫡
It was ICQ for me but this ain’t a grumpy old timer contest
Evidently not enough people left Reddit due to their last enshittification measure, so the enshittification will continue.
If I’ve learned anything over the past decade, it’s that people in general will put up with an astonishing level of enshittification
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
people in general will put up with an astonishing level of enshittification
If they didn’t, it wouldn’t happen (so much). It’s like: we get the government we deserve…
We really need a firefox addon to block reddit from google results automatically
uBlacklist
It works for those SEO spam sites too. You visit such a site, go back in history to your search engine, and in the result’s top right corner block the website. It’s neat. It doesn’t work by default with Qwant and you need to add some line in the settings that’s in one of the GitHub issues.
You can subscribe to Super-SEO-Spam-Suppressor to have it automagically updated too.
Also helpful? ublacklist-pinterest
Darn. Old Reddit is the last way to access NSFW subreddits without logging into Reddit.
Yeah, this will be quite a loss… genuinely a shame. It sucks that we can’t scrape and rebuild a copy of the whole site…
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.
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
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
I spent months deleting my old reddit comments. And I’d have to type in my username on a search engine after about a month or two and find more of my old comments and delete those too.
I know the bots already scrapped my contributions. I wanted to say fuck off to to Reddit and take back my contributions.
I requested my data via https://www.reddit.com/settings/data-request, and used every ID on that list to delete the comment via a small Javascript script I used in the browser (so I didn’t need to log on via their API, as I already was logged in).
It took a while because I had a 1 second delay between each delete. Before deleting I had actually replaced the last 1000 comments with some AI slow to poison their DB a little, before I decided to just slowly burn it all.
I’ve now been reddit free for a year, after having browsed the gods-forsaken site since 2008.
Do I have to login to use Lemmy? No, no I do not.
Bruh you don’t even have to be using lemmy to use lemmy. I seen @mastadon people all the time up in here.
piefed too.
Hello from piefed
How do you like it? I’m thinking about trying it out.
It’s nice and has some interesting features, like when there’s a crosspost, it show comments from all communities discussing the same post, or the possibility of following topics
This is amazing. Really brings together the different instances
I like it better than Lemmy. There’s more features, and, maybe I’m weird, but I like the Piefed web interface better than Lemmy’s.
And mbin!
And my axe!
Sorry its a old one.
Thas the best thing about the fediverse. As long as your on, you can communicate with others.
That still only counts as one!
@TropicalDingdong @Lexam damn right!!! lol
If I ever browsed Reddit that was the only method I used. Guess I’ll just not use it at all
I use it while logged on to keep trying to sway people over to Lemmy, haha. After all, that’s how I found this place…
Saw this post a month ago. I still had access to old.reddit. Figured they eventually cut me off.
Today they finally cut me off. I guess that’s it.
Gotta hand it to Reddit though.
Somehow they keep coming up with ways to piss off more people.
with them going public with the company, it was a death knell. and constantly trying to appease MUSK has caused a lasting effect. he was the reason why so many people got banned in purges last year.
Disabling mobile browser users with an unclosable popup was the drop for me lol
It almost was for me but old.reddit.com kept it alive for just a little longer. Went to look at my old tabs at lunch today and got hit with the sign-in prompt. Guess it’s dead for me on mobile.
Perfect timing. Today i received a mail that in a few weeks i have to verfiy my age. So now i have two reasons to delete the account.
Go into your reddit accounts and advocate for lemmy
If I wasn’t completely banned from Reddit maybe lol
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.
yea nah, we don’t want most of those idiots here, they can stay on their stupid surveillance app
Remember to scramble all your posts before you leave if you’re still in that shithole. Redact works if you’re having trouble finding something to use.
Can you even do that anymore? AFAIK Reddit now caps the amount of comment history they show you so how do you find your comments to change them?
I guess if you’re EU you can request a dump of all your data as a GDPR request and find the permalinks for all your comments in there.
Does shreddit not work any more?
It works but it’s subject to the same limits – it can only find your most recent comments via the Reddit API. But you can upload files from your data request to help it find all your comments.
