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·
    21 days ago

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

    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      36·
      21 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·
        21 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·
        20 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·
          20 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·
        20 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.

  • otp@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    701·
    22 days ago

    Darn. Old Reddit is the last way to access NSFW subreddits without logging into Reddit.

    • Dymonika@lemmy.mlEnglish
      4·
      21 days ago

      Huh, I… didn’t even think of that. I suppose people could download all the old content before this kicks in, at least, but yeah, that’ll be the loss of new stuff moving forward, unless people can sway them over to nsfwlemmy.

  • b161@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    42·
    21 days ago

    If I ever browsed Reddit that was the only method I used. Guess I’ll just not use it at all

    • Dymonika@lemmy.mlEnglish
      17·
      21 days ago

      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…

    • Dymonika@lemmy.mlEnglish
      101·
      21 days ago

      I feel like apart from niche communities, Lemmy now has critical mass to survive on its own!

  • jpreston2005@lemmy.worldEnglish
    30·
    21 days ago

    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

    • robocall@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      20 days ago

      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.

    • DarkFuture@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      21 days ago

      Yup.

      I only use old Reddit at work on a computer now. I create a new account every day as it takes that long for them to shadowban me. I get a handful of comments in, get a number of upvotes/downvotes and influence opinions, then I create a new account when I get into work the next day.

      Don’t have time for a shitty platform on weekends as I have better things to do and I don’t care to use it on mobile, even though RedReader still works and looks like old Reddit.

    • MangoCats@feddit.itEnglish
      2·
      21 days ago

      me as well - although, I’m generally logged in. The change is supposed to require you to log in, so… deleting your account in response is a bit of a strange reaction.

  • robocall@lemmy.worldEnglish
    27·
    20 days ago

    I regret every time I revisit Reddit. Them shutting down old.reddit will certainly keep me from ever going back. It’ll be a blessing in disguise for me.

    I was addicted to reddit for over 10 years when they shutdown the RIF app. At first I felt like an addict detoxing and it hurt. but now I can look back at those times and say good riddance to Reddit.

    I still enjoy this format of social media, and therefore use Lemmy a lot. It’s clear there’s no algorithm or bots upvoteing trying to make me angry or keep me on the site. There’s less bots here trying to steer the conversation or promote their product. I’m happy with Lemmy. Fuck reddit to death.

    • chiliedogg@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9·
      20 days ago

      Honestly, Lemmy has been good for me in some ways because it isn’t as popular and doesn’t have the deep niche communities reddit has that I was super active in.

      I get more accomplished now because I essentially “finish” my Lemmy browsing and move on, whereas reddit always had something else for me to dive into.

      • reptar@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        20 days ago

        Yup.

        ‘Boredom’ is important. The various endless scroll platforms are not good, for a great number of us at least.

  • M0oP0o@mander.xyzEnglish
    24·
    21 days ago

    Oh they dont like people using their website as a website? Guess this is an issue that will solve itself.