cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/50546583

As of a few minutes ago old.reddit.com now seems to requre logging in to access it.

Shame as it was still the best place to browse for info about some niche interests.

Edit: Seems like they might be testing the change as it is hit or miss at the moment.

Edit: Adding this to My flilters in uBlock Origin seems to fix the issue for the time being:

||reddit.com^$header=referer:

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    3 days ago

    You know what’s even more interesting? You know how half of reddit hides their comments on the profile? Find a profile that has the comments hidden and then check that profile from incognito mode

    EDIT: Nevermind, I’m an idiot. This no longer works because you can’t use old reddit thru incognito while not logged in, but before this change you could see comments on profiles that should not show any comments while using incognito. I reported this privacy bug some time ago, I guess this works as a solution.

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      3 days ago

      And even more infuriating you can only use that setting in the reddit phone app. So reddit can spy on your phone w/ tencent…

      The hidden comment users are planted opposition and/or bots. And killing the API was to force the reddit addicted to DL their shitty app.

      reddit is clown shoes.