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.

      • laurenceOfSuburbia@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 小时前

        bro. new mac on a router = new ip. new email = done.
        perma banned 17 times
        I only use it to shitpost and steal content. its a bad place

      • osanna@lemmy.vgEnglish
        1·
        3 小时前

        same haha. I ONLY use a vpn online, and they banned the VPN IPs. if i went on there without a VPN, they’d require my ID as I’m in a country that requires ID for social media. And that sure as fucking shit isn’t fucking happening.

    • 87Six@lemmy.zipEnglish
      8·
      13 小时前

      yea nah, we don’t want most of those idiots here, they can stay on their stupid surveillance app