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  • the_riviera_kid@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    2 days ago

    Well luckily (for now) you can still read any posts there without logging in if you follow the link from a search engine.

    If you are looking for a specific post copying the address into google and clicking on it from there for instance will get you the reddit post without logging in.

    Edit: that seems to not be working now, oh well fuck reddit.

    • bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      6·
      3 days ago

      OP showed a screenshot for old.reddit.com which is the older UI from ~2014. I have a rewrite rule in an extension that turns all reddit links into this to get the better old UI even when clicking through from a search engine result, and got the same message a few hours ago.

      • the_riviera_kid@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        3 days ago

        I literally just did it to make sure you could before I posted this. It still works as of this post.

        Click on the link inside of that link and boom no login. (you may need “old reddit redirect” I don’t know what extension you are using to reach old reddit)

        https://www.startpage.com/do/dsearch?q=https%3A%2F%2Fold.reddit.com%2Fr%2FScrubs%2Fcomments%2F1suzx8j%2Fthe_scrubs_reboot_is_the_best_example_of_a_show%2F&cat=web&language=english

        • bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
          3·
          3 days ago

          hmmm, maybe it’s the extension that’s not passing the referrer information in my case? I am using “Old Reddit Redirect”. The URL in that search result still shows www.reddit.com when I hover over the link, and when I open it and the browser extension changes the URL to old.reddit.com which is where I get the login prompt.

          I guess other extensions might rewrite the link destination, but then that would require more access to the extension to read/write the contents of every site visited, which is too much for me.

          • __hetz@mas.to
            2·
            2 days ago

            @Davel23

            End of last month they announced a login would be required even to just view old dot reddit. At the moment it seems like they might be A/B Testing it. A handful of people are still reporting that old dot works, but myself and many others can no longer access it - being redirected to a login prompt.

            “Oh well,” I say. I won’t be creating an account.

            (Supposedly the RSS is still accessible. You might look into that. I’m considering scripting up something I can throw a URL into that gets the useful info out - for the occasions when Reddit is a top result for a tech question or the like.)

          • the_riviera_kid@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            3 days ago

            Perhaps a browser refresh?, I just tried it on a different machine with waterfox and just old reddit redirect and it went to old reddit no login needed.

            The matter is pointless anyway if reddit wants to die let them.