The probable reasoning: it is for child safety!
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Not really a loss given the shithole that place has become, but here's an alternative that's a bit more privacy focused if you want to browse in the old reddit style without logging in:
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Lol
I wave goodbye as with a final groan the last bit of reddit sinks below the water.
I was using the RDX app to view r/all without all the ads and “suggestions,” and now that’s broken. Guess my last link to Reddit has been severed.
It's actually the reason I'm here now. I deleted my account a long time ago but would still pop in there every now and then to check out some communities I used to be a part of. Now that I can't even do that anymore there's no reason for me to ever go back. Ah well, it was nice while it lasted.
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Yup. Just logged back into this account after a year. I haven't had a reddit account since the API stuff, so I guess this is how I finally stop using reddit.
not on my end it doesn't
Works without logging in for me
Am I gonna have to be the one that clones the reddit front page on lemmy? Seriously though, use https://redlib.catsarch.com/ for now.
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Are you saying if this ever happens you'll stop using reddit? Or are you experiencing this now? I have been using it all afternoon with no login.
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Seems like it might just be for larger subreddits? I have an RSS Feed with r/soccer and r/NFL for sports news, and they don't load anymore. But my local soccer team and city subreddit still work fine on old.
Can confirm
old.reddit.com had some hiccups this month where it'd try and force me to not use it, but then after a few hours it'd show old.reddit.com again.
But Finally, today, it seems to have stuck. Old.reddit.com seems to be dead (unless you're using a VPN set to USA?).
It's weird how it almost coincides with Chromium putting Manifest v2 in the grave, which is by the end of August 2026..
Pouring one out for highstrangeness, although AI slop had already killed the truly insane schizo posts, this is the final nail for this lurker. Fuck reddit and long live the fediverse.
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