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> It's in part due to scrapers and AI. It has nothing to do with that, scrapers can still scrape new reddit. This is just a hostile action to move visitors to
by iamacyborg 20d ago
> It's in part due to scrapers and AI.
It has nothing to do with that, scrapers can still scrape new reddit. This is just a hostile action to move visitors to a site that shows more ads.
- mcmcmc 20d ago[flagged]
- LastTrain 20d agoNot a moral judgement, just it was good before and now it sucks. Just my opinion, the horror!
- distances 19d ago? This isn't about new vs. old reddit, but rather that there's now no access without login.
- iamacyborg 19d agoThe reason Reddit gave for blocking access to non-logged in users is that it's being used for AI scraping. https://www.reddit.com/r/modnews/comments/1ujtebf/logging_in_to_use_old_reddit/ https://www.reddit.com/r/modnews/comments/1ujtebf/logging_in... > Old Reddit’s logged-out experience is a significant source of abusive scraping and automated traffic on the platform.