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Nice. That is just enough of a barrier to stop be using reddit entirely. Not posted in years but sometimes read when bored enough.
Stop using platforms that are actively locking you out. The reason they keep doing this is because people keep complying.
The libredirect front ends are still working, if you need a workaround…
I’m perma band so I can just view things
Reddit is such a disgusting shit heap these days. There are still some subreddits worth lurking in but the majority is flooded with AI posts.
It used to be so nice.
much like everything private equity ruined.
Yeah the level of bullshit on reddit is more than what I’m willing to tolerate so I’m permanently lemmy now.
I can change my mac, get a new IP, get a private VPN but it just doesn’t seem worth it anymore to have a normal discussions on reddit without getting banned.
If I have a question - AI now resolves 99% of it. Everything else and discussions - Lemmy is fine and I can use a normal app with no ads
I wish AI could solve 99% of my questions. Asked it about growing some veg and it told me to plant seeds to a plant that isn’t even grown from seed.
I got perma banned from Reddit for calling for the… well, unpleasant things towards p3do$.
Telegram the same way. Fuck those assholes
Works fine for me without logging in in a quick test (from the US).
You forced me to delete my account when you banned me for “abuse of report button”
Don’t log into an account.
Browse the Internet like normal.
If x.com or reddit.com won’t let you view without privacy, they’re dead and useless.
Have some spine; lead, and stop following and being led by evil people and companies.
This is true for YouTube as well.
You can view YouTube logged out
Yep, I do that. I don’t subscribe, I bookmark.
And the garbage finished taking itself out. Wonderful.
I’m actually okay with this if it means more people get to check out old reddit. That said, I’m a bit confused: why is reddit now requiring all accounts to log into old reddit? I thought they wanted everyone using the new site? Did they have a change of heart? It’s kind of odd to force people to visit the old site to login now, you know?
Furthermore, why are you looking at new reddit to begin with? I go directly to the old.reddit URL so I never see messages like this (they only pop up if you’re on new reddit). If it was unintentional, you can use Old Reddit Redirect to solve that problem.
I think you must’ve misread, it’s old reddit that you can’t see anymore without logging in
Don’t you understand? Reddit is in DANGER from users NOT BEING LOGGED IN!
That’s not really what that means, they don’t want people scraping reddit, which is much easier on old reddit.
Think of all the horrible CSAM posts I can flood reddit with while NOT LOGGED IN! They must be in shambles!
You cannot, and never could, post without logging in.
To be fair, the likely reason in this case is AI companies mass-downloading Reddit posts for their training runs. You can’t really cache the internet, so from what I understand, every training run they scrape this stuff anew.
For many smaller sites, it’s effectively a denial-of-service attack, which is why lots of them have put up this thing:
For Reddit, it might just be additional traffic that they have to pay for and which doesn’t give them any profit. Although, if Reddit is still as unstable as it was years ago, I also wouldn’t be surprised, if they got DoSed by that a few times as well.
What you say is true, but not the reason. Part of reddit’s business model is selling its data to AI companies. So they just don’t want to give it away for free
It wants you inside of it
