It's finally happened... a sad day for the internet :( Edit: For me anyway in UK using Starlink
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colesantiago
Just login then? Still works fine.
gnabgib
Discussions So Reddit has decided that plain HTML is unsafe (610 points, 19 days ago, 668 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49005747 Reddit will require you to log in to use old.reddit.com (123 points, 1 month ago, 42 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48740217 Tell HN: Old Reddit now requires login (88 points, 1 month ago, 18 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48753129 Tell HN: Old Reddit Now Requires Login (47 points, 21 days ago, 33 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48983857
luke5441
New reddit also has blocking pop-ups after a while if you are not logged in since recently.
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It's cookie/session based, try browsing in private/incognito mode.
alisadev
Yeah, it just happened to me as well. And the worst part is that even if we give in to their demands and log in, we’d probably only get six more months of old.reddit at most. By being complacent now, we’re basically showing them that they can do whatever they want. So after they shut down old.reddit, they might require login for new.reddit too, or maybe cripple the website so much that it’ll be impossible to use it without their app (like Facebook and Instagram). I guess it’d be better to write a userscript that replaces their UI completely, and/or start getting used to not browsing Reddit.
sandcat_
Honestly, probably time to move off it regardless. Perhaps I visited the wrong subreddits but these days, whenever I show up, it's all largely AI slop. Or bot accounts, reposting things. Even on smaller or more niche subreddits too.
flas9sd
Red Harvest I guess. Let's build our own, this time with.. oh, a lot of lemmy instances already do have an old. subdomain and interface!
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Discussion Highlights (7 comments)
colesantiago
Just login then? Still works fine.
gnabgib
Discussions So Reddit has decided that plain HTML is unsafe (610 points, 19 days ago, 668 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49005747 Reddit will require you to log in to use old.reddit.com (123 points, 1 month ago, 42 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48740217 Tell HN: Old Reddit now requires login (88 points, 1 month ago, 18 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48753129 Tell HN: Old Reddit Now Requires Login (47 points, 21 days ago, 33 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48983857
luke5441
New reddit also has blocking pop-ups after a while if you are not logged in since recently.
x______________
It's cookie/session based, try browsing in private/incognito mode.
alisadev
Yeah, it just happened to me as well. And the worst part is that even if we give in to their demands and log in, we’d probably only get six more months of old.reddit at most. By being complacent now, we’re basically showing them that they can do whatever they want. So after they shut down old.reddit, they might require login for new.reddit too, or maybe cripple the website so much that it’ll be impossible to use it without their app (like Facebook and Instagram). I guess it’d be better to write a userscript that replaces their UI completely, and/or start getting used to not browsing Reddit.
sandcat_
Honestly, probably time to move off it regardless. Perhaps I visited the wrong subreddits but these days, whenever I show up, it's all largely AI slop. Or bot accounts, reposting things. Even on smaller or more niche subreddits too.
flas9sd
Red Harvest I guess. Let's build our own, this time with.. oh, a lot of lemmy instances already do have an old. subdomain and interface!