old reddit was previously accessible without log inhttps://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/06/reddit-will-require-you-to-log-in-to-use-old-reddit-com/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."In a follow-up comment, boat-botany defined abusive behavior as that which violates Reddit's rule prohibiting activity that interferes with the platform's "normal use" or that "create[s] programs or applications" that break Reddit's (controversial) API rules. "By logging in, we get a lot more signal that allows us to detect whether an account is breaking the rules, and then we can block that traffic or enforce those accounts," boat-botany said.
>>538179364Tldr: AI LLMs scraping Reddit costs us too much money as they don't view or click our ads. We only want monetizable daily active users (mDAUs) to access Reddit
oh no
>>538179765the coming jew-on-jew digital turf war will have a lot of casualties you'll need a phone number to read/watch/listen to anything
>>538180108You'll need to be biometrically identified using Apple or Google Passkey.Random unidentified users (majority bots) are not profitable to sell ads to nor collect data from.
>>538179364> 2026> accessing reddit
