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Reddit forces login to access old.reddit.com (arstechnica.com)

submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by Redacted@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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As of a few minutes ago old.reddit.com now seems to requre logging in to access it.

Shame as it was still the best place to browse for info about some niche interests.

Edit: Seems like they might be testing the change as it is hit or miss at the moment.

Edit: Adding this to My flilters in uBlock Origin seems to fix the issue for the time being:

||reddit.com^$header=referer:

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[–] abc@suppo.fi 3 points 2 weeks ago

RIP

[–] mHtt@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 weeks ago

Digg 2.0

[–] onionsinmypores@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago

Seems like I just got hit with it too today or yesterday, and it was being rolled out since about a month ago. Sad.

Here's a hackernews post on it (3 days old):
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49326106

[–] sudoMakeUser@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Still works for me. I use it without an account to browse /r/cars and /r/justrolledintotheshop because there's not really good Lemmy alternatives for those communities.

[–] Grostleton@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Might be an existing cookie that hasn't expired yet, or they're testing it on only some people for now.

[–] sudoMakeUser@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 weeks ago

I'm sure it's a regional or A/B rollout for now. Only a matter of time.

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[–] db_null@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 weeks ago

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[–] Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

I can still access r/Falcons.

On my android phone using duckduckgo browser via Wi-Fi with adguardhome dns

[–] A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip 2 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I cannot confirm this. I call on old.reddit.com roughly once a day (whenever I want to see something on reddit) and it never requires login. Not today either.

Could this be a regional thing?

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[–] DarkCloud@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

Goodluck trying to search a specific subreddit!

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