Are you sure? If I visit https://old.reddit.com/r/haskell/ in private mode (i.e. without my auth cookies) then I am asked to log in.
replyI guess they are A/B testing this “feature”.
replyYeah, that loads right up for me.
replyWellp, not for me... Shame, reddit has/had really good answers to a variety of problems that I've had over the years. Not sure if there's a replacement for it, or if there will ever be another.
replyThey are just trying to close the loophole from the scrapers.
replyThey are selling content to google et al for their LLMs and they don't want to give it away for free.
You can still add .json to any thread and get the full comments in a single object. The anti scraping features must be a rate limiting thing, because it’s very machine readable otherwise. They just want to push people to be logged in and use the app.
replyNot for me - both at work and home. I need to be logged in.
replyDoesn't work for me
replyMaybe for you.
replyI get a nice
> Log in to use old Reddit
> To keep Reddit safe, accounts are required to access old Reddit. Log in, or continue without an account on reddit.com.
You in the UK?
replyI get the same, seemingly randomly, from US.
replyNo more, since I installed the "always old reddit" plugin in firefox.
No, but I am not in the US
replyNot working for me either without an account anymore. Seems like a very recent change.
replyI had to login the other day to use it. Probably getting slowly rolled out.
reply> Old Reddit still works just fine without an account.
replyIt works sometimes, it's been inconsistent lately. I assume they're rolling out the blocks incrementally or something, because sometimes I can get through to it in a private window and other times I can't.
it works just fine for you, but not everyone.
replyNot for long, sadly.
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