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.
I’ve been using RedReader to view the 2-3 subreddits that don’t have an equivalent here on Lemmy. Hope those still work…
I think redreader has official permission to use the API because it has a disability focus.
Correct, RR has unusual exception because it’s the only blind-friendly Reddit app (which is legitimately amazing at that). And then other apps like the forked Slide (which I use) piggyback off of it, pretending they’re RR so that they can still function, too.