Can confirm that this started happening today.

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.

I don't participate in Reddit conversions and only use old.reddit.com to browse some specific subreddits as a guest.

So who is going to make the xcancel version for old reddit?

edit: https://safereddit.com/ is an instance of https://github.com/redlib-org/redlib

First I made a userscript that auto-redirects me to old.reddit, then they did this. So now I have my userscript fetch the .json version of the url, and render a minimal hackernews style UI instead of the bloated normal site.

Suddenly started happening to me out of nowhere while browsing. Really does feel like one of the last pillars of the old internet just toppled - that reading is open to anyone. New Reddit is basically unusable.

Edit: I still am a strong believer in anonymous usage of the internet. Increasingly it feels like we've become an endangered species.

Getting the same. I stuck around as a lurker cause some subs were still good. I'm definitely not creating an account or subjecting myself to new reddit.

I wonder if this was about killing old.reddit in two steps, forcing people to create accounts, or LLM scrapers.

Update: looks like they want LLMs to have to buy their data: https://web.archive.org/web/20260716201346/https://old.reddi...

Related:

Reddit will require you to log in to use old.reddit.com

https://smackernews.com/item/48740217 HN

(Source: https://old.reddit.com/r/modnews/comments/1ujtebf/logging_in...)

I can still access https://old.reddit.com/ using Firefox with Ublock, NoScript Privacy Badger and Old Reddit Redirect addons.

Using Chrome I get: You've been blocked by network security. If you think you've been blocked by mistake, file a ticket below and we'll look into it. File a ticket

I've been working on https://treehouse.net/

Not a direct substitute old.reddit.com in that we don't support creating custom communities, but the idea is to create something reminiscent of the original reddit, or perhaps a version of Hacker News with a more broad scope of topics. Oh, and you can filter out topics, like AI.

Cannot duplicate. What I'm getting is a temporary/false "You've been blocked by network security" page but refreshing then brings up the reddit page as per usual.

May I suggest - https://old.lemmy.world/?listingType=All&sort=New

Guess I'm not using it anymore

Isnt this going to decrease a massive amount of traffic from Google searches and whatnot?

I sadly lost the old reddit cookie on my iPad and now I can't get it back :(

Is this truly the end?

Feels like a moment

Also getting slammed with the "to keep Reddit safe" bullshit.

How do banned users access Old Reddit? Do they just Not?