funny, that comes just on the heels of my deciding that reddit is unsafe.
this post was submitted on 29 Aug 2026
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You're just now realizing it?
not really but it make for good joke pacing.
i’ve been here for a while. and not there for a while.
even logged in I can't access old reddit anymore.
old.reddit redirect addon just got a update that deals with that problem.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/old-reddit-redirect/
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if you use the reddit enhanced suite extension you can get redirected
If I wasn't permabanned I might bother trying work arounds.
I just checked my old.reddit login on the desktop... still working just fine today. I don't think you need work-arounds, you just need to access it without any work-arounds.
You think that if I do the thing that's not working that it will somehow work.
working for me
How dare you question King Steven the Turd, Greediest of Pigboys? If he proclaims HTML to be unsafe, it must be so. That's a King's job, to tell the Landed Gentry how to behave....
I'm not forgetting or forgiving that shit either.
Whats reddit?
typo, it's spelled "read it!"
Apart from all that, what would prevent an AI knowledge thieving tool from using an actual account on Reddit?
I get blocked and asked to login to reddit no matter if it's old or new. safereddit still works though so I'm using that for now.
Whether or not it shows it requires a login for old.reddit.com depends on IP. I see this on a few networks, not on others.
afaik supposedly it was because a large chunk of the bot network went through the old.reddit portal over the standard reddit portal.
That's just an excuse by reddit. Moving to the new style allows them to choke down and control the way that posts and replies are displayed and nested. This is good for them, because it allows them to offer white glove PR services to paying customers. It also obfuscates useful user supplied content so that it can be sold wholesale to anyone who has the money to buy it. That's more important to them than offering a good user experience and useful website to the proles.
Anyone still posting on reddit (who isn't a bot) is working for free for an unscrupulous company.
Anyone still posting on reddit (who isn't a bot) is working for free for an unscrupulous company.
Reddit was founded during the "crowdsourcing" craze. People realized that they could launch websites where all the content was created by the users, and it would snowball into daily views.
My point is that posting and commenting on Reddit has always been doing free work for an unscrupulous company. You could argue that it wasn't unscrupulous before it went public, but even that is debatable.
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I am so glad I'm off reddit. Even though I could use their help on a great number of subjects. Neverheless, because Isreal I can't use reddit apparently. Not permabanned yet but they are on my shit with fake violations like right away now. I abandon them after a 2nd violation, go through one every 3 to 6 months when using it.
Every single company that goes public gets worse, reddit will be no exception. Those craven amoral cockscum are not to be trusted, nor patronized with our words they can use for their own benefit.