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Reddit will require you to log in to use old.reddit.com (arstechnica.com)
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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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[–] 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

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.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago*

    im surprised they , havnt shadowbanned every acct you made the moment you created it, since they often will link your IP and device and automatic ban news ones. unless your IP or device changes everytime.

    the others way they ban is through pattern of behaviour, your fingerprint, canvas size, device components.

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