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sanitation ( sanitation@lemmy.today ) Banned from community to Privacy@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 months ago

Reddit will require you to log in to use old.reddit.com

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Reddit will require you to log in to use old.reddit.com

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sanitation ( sanitation@lemmy.today ) Banned from community to Privacy@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 months ago
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Logged-out Old Reddit access is “significant source of abusive scraping."
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  • ordnance_qf_17_pounder ( ordnance_qf_17_pounder@reddthat.com ) 
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    Reddit getting shittier? No way!

  • supersquirrel ( supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz ) 
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    Hahahaha

    I love watching reddit die.

    edit I’ve had this account for 2 1/2 years with a 6.5k post count, every one of those was done with the intent of killing reddit, I see this as a war and I regret it not at all, this place is so much more promising and reddit needs to die.

  • DahGangalang ( DahGangalang@infosec.pub ) 
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    Fuck, this is probably going to screw up @bot@lemmit.online

    • Sylvartas ( Sylvartas@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 
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      I think it will have to link to “normal” Reddit, and if you’re logged into an account with the old Reddit setting checked it should redirect.

      Of course this is just Reddit trying to make this less convenient and probably attempting to collect more data on old.reddit users, and I expect them to routinely “accidentally” break the redirect but we might be able to keep the bot ?

    • Scrubbles ( scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech ) 
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      Rss feeds appear to be available

      • DahGangalang ( DahGangalang@infosec.pub ) 
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        Unclear what you mean. Are you saying you can get an RSS feed for Reddit posts?

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          Yeah, you just add .rss at the end of the community, like https://www.reddit.com/r/feedly.rss or https://www.reddit.com/r/technology.rss

  • Hirom ( Hirom@beehaw.org ) 
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    This is a reminder for reddit communities and users to move to the fediverse.

    I still uses reddit without account to anonymously browse some communities, and have no intention to create an account.

  • naevaTheRat ( naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 
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    Annoying, I won’t be able to access reddit posts as part of searches.

    I really wish people hadn’t been so eager to abandon independent forums for hobbies.

    • supersquirrel ( supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz ) 
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      I really wish people hadn’t been so eager to abandon independent forums for hobbies.

      While we are on the subject, fuck discord

  • eodur ( eodur@piefed.social ) 
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    As long as redlib keeps working

    • kgbbot ( kgbbot@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 
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      What’s that?

      • darcmage ( darcmage@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 
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        https://github.com/redlib-org/redlib

        They keep trying to kill it but the community has done a pretty good job keeping it going.

  • therealdries ( therealdries@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 
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    I don’t get it… isn’t that what they were already doing? I have to log in and reset reddit to lesscrappier.reddit every damn time.

    • taco ( taco@anarchist.nexus ) 
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      I’ve manually gone to old.reddit on mobile for years because the normal site blocks scrolling to advertise the app after a bit.

      I’ve had an extension on desktop that redirects all reddit urls to old.reddit for even longer, since it comes up in search results so much.

      Neither of these require being logged in today.

  • CerebralHawks ( cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 
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    Good, let the paedo site die already

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    Makes sense, you can’t really scrape the new one since it doesn’t show you the content you want.

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