Reddit will start requiring people to be logged into Reddit to use old.reddit.com.
The new requirement will take effect “over the next month,” a Reddit employee going by the username boat-botany announced on the social media platform today. The person claimed that the change is part of an ongoing effort to “tighten how automated systems access Reddit.”
The Reddit employee wrote:
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.
Or just get banned. It’ll hide all your posts.
Unless that is just an old.reddit thing, that does not appear to be the case
reddit have banned me multiple times, for no reason, and for reasons that they make up. I occasionally stumble on my old posts with user just listed as ‘deleted’
reddit likely is using new method of automatically removing keywords from subs.
Will it hide them from the scrapers, though?
Not the ones that pay. They save even deleted posts and likely do versioning to get around the spite mass edits.
I’m (hopefully) not even a percent as evil as the reddit folks and I immediately thought of ways to monetize the scrambled text.
Now you have huge differential datasets of original “humanlike content” to compare to “bad/scrambled” content to include in your whoring out of your userbase’s creative works.