I’ve been hearing that Reddit is requiring an account now. But there’s still a workaround. Use old.reddit.com + Tor Browser in the “Safest” security setting (aka Javascript disabled). This is the most private way to browse Reddit, and somehow, it still works. If it’s not working, try clicking the menu and click “New Tor circuit for this site”.
Unfortunately, as of just a few days ago, all the Stack Exchange sites now needs Javascript to view, because they use Cloudflare (and the workaround I was using stopped working). So I have to keep switching between Javascript enabled or disabled, depending on if I want to view a Reddit or StackExchange post. Annoying.
Edit: Redlib is also a great way to access Reddit anonymously. And even if Reddit ends up blocking the Tor workaround, I’m confident that Redlib will continue to work.
Edit2: ok looks like old.reddit.com isn’t working anymore, you have to use the onion link. Still working as of 2026-08-22 8:00 UTC. Or just use RedLib.
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You can self host a copy a stack exchange and many other sites offline using kiwix. https://kiwix.org
You can browse the availabe sites for self hosting at https://browse.library.kiwix.org
Brilliant! The data seems to be updated monthly too. I’m surprised at how small some of the websites are, like ServerFault which is only 1.5 GB. StackOverflow is 100 GB but I have space for that.
That’s a lot of work to be honest. Anyway, I mostly only go (went) to reddit after googling something and a reddit thread shows up in the results.
Same, which is why I still need to view reddit sometimes, and I’d rather do it anonymously.
(Though if you’re using Google I guess that anonymity is already out the window)
“Oh hey! A way to browse Reddit now that old.Reddit.com has a login wall”
Step 1. Use old.reddit.com
Wut?
Did you miss the part where you must disable Javascript?
Old reddit requires an account now.
every-time someone post a github link, i spend 2h trying to get it to work, and it doesnt… I dont even know what the purpose of github is, why everyone link to it, and why it is so complicated to have anything on it to run
Its a version control system for software developers. Different projects will release software with it in different ways - basically every way that software can be distributed, including compiling it to machine code yourself, some project on GitHub will share their software that way
💯🫂🫂
Yup, Redlib is also a great tool, I’ll edit the post to mention it, thanks.
Do you use anything for Stack Exchange?
Also use the LibRedirect extension to automatically change it to redlib. Btw, there are many other privacy focused alternatives in the LibRedirect settings that you should look at too.
I also recommend LibRedirect, it has lots of sites covered like Reddit, StackExchange, Twitter and even Geeks for Geeks
Yep.
Private browsing or an incognito tab works for me too.
