Reddit forces login to access old.reddit.com

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:

arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/08/reddit-signals-ominous-upcoming-changes-for-old-reddit-com/

Reddit has gotten really lame, there’s always been saddos who troll through entire post history’s when they can’t win an argument.

Lately they’ve changed stratagies to calling people underage instead hoping mods delete accounts or something I guess. It just comes across as absolutely pathetic to me.

But yeah Reddit is definitely breaking old.reddit on purpose and will probably be just mostly bots soon .

Every post history digger uses AI tools to summarize user posts and then picks something to attack them on.

Nah I do my own post history digging by hand. Usually only look when a user is being particularly ornery or an ass and then a post history look reveals whether they’re a troll or not.

On Reddit I mean. There are many tool for it like roastdit.kadoa.com especially used by right-wingers. (disclaimer I do not know what the exact tool they use is, probably not that one)