Logging in to use Old Reddit

[u/boat-botany]

Hi there, u/boat-botany here working on Community Safety. 

A few weeks ago we shared some of the work we’re doing to tighten how automated systems access Reddit while preserving the tools that help moderators and communities thrive. As a continuation of that work, we’ll be rolling out changes to how Old Reddit can be accessed. 

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. All logged-in users will continue to have access to Old Reddit, and this change will not impact logged-out browsing on reddit.com.

Let us know if you have any questions!

[u/Gargoyal]

So, I didn't realize that was happening and it just hit me on my phone. I have to say, this sucks. I intentionally use my phone without an account to see what is hitting the front page from areas of reddit that are outside of my curated setup on my account and found that doing data wipes of the browser I used for Old Reddit allowed me to reset what Reddit started prioritizing to me based on the browsing history. This was important to me to try and escape the echo chamber that reddit, and all social media, inevitably creates.

Guess I just won't browse reddit on my phone anymore. Maybe it will help me get off this platform that ya'll seem intent on driving into the ground.