@lemmydividebyzero@reddthat.com
2026-08-29 18:39 UTC
Replies (11)
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@PurpleFanatic@quokk.au 2026-08-30 00:41
It’s shitty moves like this that have me feeling deeply grateful about the fediverse. It’s NOT without its myriad of problems, but how lucky are we? We’re insulated from all this bullshit. Mastodon is every bit as good (and better) as it was when I started using it in 2018. Can the same be said for Reddit, Instagram, Facebook or YouTube? Absolutely the fuck not.
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@tal@lemmy.today 2026-08-30 03:48
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.
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@carpelbridgesyndrome@sh.itjust.works 2026-08-30 00:49
If you consider scraping a threat then yes plain HTML might as well be giving up. The advantage of new reddit for that is quite clear: they can collect a bunch of data about your browser before deciding if you are a bot and if the rest of the page should load. The embedded recaptcha call in the screenshots is a pretty good hint. I suspect blocking trackers on new reddit will break as soon as the scrapers move over. As for why they don’t just kill old reddit: a significant chunk of their active posters use it and are attached to it. So if they kill it entirely they will lose content. Posters are of course logged in so this change is less likely to affect them.
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@PattyMcB@lemmy.world 2026-08-30 04:31
Reddit seems to be in the business of extracting as much value as it can from said forums without completely destroying them. I call bs. It’s been completely destroyed for a while.
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@turdburglar@piefed.social 2026-08-30 00:52
funny, that comes just on the heels of my deciding that reddit is unsafe.
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@HAL_9_TRILLION@lemmy.world 2026-08-30 00:22
I now browse Wikipedia. Please don’t screw me over Wikipedia, I donated five bucks to one of your nags once. For anyone who doesn’t know, you can download Wikipedia and host it yourself! I got the top 50k version (~7G) on my RPI3 and now no matter what fuckery they pull or the government pulls, I’ve got a pretty decent source of general information.
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@lechekaflan@lemmy.world 2026-08-30 07:10
Fuck you spez.
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@Treczoks@lemmy.world 2026-08-30 07:33
Apart from all that, what would prevent an AI knowledge thieving tool from using an actual account on Reddit?
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@Dudewitbow@lemmy.zip 2026-08-29 19:05
afaik supposedly it was because a large chunk of the bot network went through the old.reddit portal over the standard reddit portal.
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@MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 2026-08-30 10:15
This is because appending site: reddit.com to a search query is basically a surefire way to find results written by genuine humans. The article is from 2026, not 2016? That bot-ridden Reddit? Am i in the wrong film?
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@Bruncvik@lemmy.world 2026-08-30 18:42
Yesterday, I visited new Reddit. No VPN, Chrome in incognito mode, so no extensions, clickedon a link directly from Google search. Got a message that my access was blocked for security reasons. Copied the link to Firefox (with uBO and a few privacy-centric extensions), changed it to old reddit (where I was already logged in), and it worked just fine. I found out that when Reddit kills old reddit, I won’t even have the choice to switch to the new one (not that I ever would) because I’d be blocked anyway.