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.

  • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    16·
    4 hours ago

    If I’ve learned anything over the past decade, it’s that people in general will put up with an astonishing level of enshittification

    • jtrek@startrek.websiteEnglish
      1·
      26 minutes ago

      Most people seem to not even have any notion of how things can be better. They never even think to look up like “block ads”. They just take whatever fuckery they get

    • MangoCats@feddit.itEnglish
      2·
      1 hour ago

      people in general will put up with an astonishing level of enshittification

      If they didn’t, it wouldn’t happen (so much). It’s like: we get the government we deserve…