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.

  • auzy1@lemmy.worldEnglish
    18·
    13 hours ago

    We really need a firefox addon to block reddit from google results automatically

      • auzy1@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        3 hours ago

        uBlacklist

        looks like for Chrome (if that even supports plugins anymore, who even knows anymore) and Firefox… looks like it could work

    • optimisticturtle@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      13 hours ago

      Might as well not even use google 70% of the time though if you exclude reddit. I found before switching to DDG or Startpage that I would have to add reddit or site:reddit.com to my queries.

      • Psythik@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        6 hours ago

        Seriously, what an odd take. The vast majority of questions simply cannot be answered these days if you exclude reddit from your search results. It used to not be this way. Something’s gotta give.

        • Tollana1234567@lemmy.todayEnglish
          1·
          6 hours ago

          some very specific questions wont show up on other forums that reddit has, since most people from other forums/sites moved to reddit to start communities there, or niche content. outside of something like health related fourms, are still healthy, or something about evading SOCIAL media bot/spam detection methods.

          i was used to be on other forums that largely died out or became less useful because reddit had most if not all the answers or discussions. remember the subreddit bans in the 2017ish-2018, i joined a international forum that they migrated to and left that one, as it started to deviate from the actual original subreddit it came from. it did replicate the UI of old reddit quite nicely though.