Logged-out Old Reddit access is “significant source of abusive scraping."

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.

  • HCSOThrowaway@lemmy.worldEnglish
    74·
    23 days ago

    Evidently not enough people left Reddit due to their last enshittification measure, so the enshittification will continue.

    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      36·
      23 days ago

      If I’ve learned anything over the past decade, it’s that people in general will put up with an astonishing level of enshittification

      • MangoCats@feddit.itEnglish
        6·
        23 days ago

        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…

      • architect@thelemmy.clubEnglish
        5·
        22 days ago

        They don’t even notice in my experience.

        They think people like us are losing it for even noticing.

        • PerogiBoi@lemmy.caEnglish
          3·
          22 days ago

          Can confirm. Blew a fuse when Spotify started sneaking AI generated music in my playlists and my whole family said I was overreacting and that it didn’t matter

      • PerogiBoi@lemmy.caEnglish
        2·
        22 days ago

        People on average will literally put up with anything. You can charge them $10/month for their email and you see 90% or so of all people just shrug and then pay it.