Reddit is now requiring you to have an account and be logged in to use old.reddit.com, the less cluttered and bloate...

Reddit is now requiring you to have an account and be logged in to use old.reddit.com, the less cluttered and bloated desktop website. Ars Technica has a great article with a breakdown of Reddit's reasoning behind this, but essentially they claim they're worried about scrapers accessing content without paying for it - content, of course, that Reddit didn't even create and yet are monetizing it as much as possible. The scraping can likely be exclusively due to training LLMs and Reddit wants a piece of that. Oddly, you can still access their bloated "www" website without being logged in, at least for now, but man is that a painful experience. I deleted my Reddit account around 2021 in an effort to simplify my digital life, to spend less time online, and more specifically spending less time consuming toxic material. My experience with Reddit had become increasingly sour. Seldom did I find useful or interesting content, much less thoughtful comments, and more low-effort rage bait content…