They'll justify fucking anything with "sAfEtY" these days
This is gonna make using old.reddit auto redirect addons much more annoying
Reddit is just acknowledging that it is a cognito hazard.
this post was submitted on 10 Aug 2026
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If you browse without an account I highly recommend an alternative frontend like redlib. I deleted my main account as soon as I set up my own instance and it's such a better experience.
How does this work
You can use redlib instance to browse reddit without an account https://redlib.catsarch.com/r/mildlyinfuriating
or if a specific instances breaks you can use something dynamic like https://farside.link/reddit.com/r/whatever to find one that's up
But its new reddit format, there were services like teddit that used a layout more similar to old.reddit but every instance I know of it as been shut down, the code still exists so if you have the means and ability to host your own instance you can https://github.com/teddit-net/teddit but I know than can seem daunting if you haven't done something like that before, but you could probably find a friendly user with some time on their hands to walk you through it, or maybe try a lying machine to lay out the process in simple understandable steps
or did you mean how does it work on a technical level?
Throwing it out there that on mobile, apps like Infinity+ let you browse, subscribe, etc without an account. There's probably others. I think I pirated an apk of this one specifically because it's what I used for years before the API stuff.
"Safety" being hollowed out like "antisemitism"
It's not wrong. To keep Reddit safe in the eyes of their shareholders, they need everyone to have an account so they can more accurately track and sell their users data
They’ve been blocking me from accessing it due to my VPN for quite a while now. It’s been nice
where do you get this message? old.reddit.com still works for me.
I wonder if it's location dependant or they're still doing A/B testing.
I had to stop defaulting to old as those I set it to kept getting the login page
They might just deploy it to some servers but not others and then you randomly get this or you don't.
While I'm not entirely against rolling deployments, for like uptime and preventing bugs from taking out everything, I think part of the reasons they are done is to squash resistance because every time an antifeature gets rolled out most of the discussion is not about how shit it is but about whether it's even real and by the time everyone has it the people that got it early are already used to it.
It is 100% based on location/something similar
My work laptop can still browse old reddit while my home machine cannot, even while both are using my router (this only applies when I am using my work VPN which defaults to my company's headquarters as default location which is in a different state)
On whatever reddit link I click on. I've got this installed in Firefox https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/toggle-old-reddit-redirect/
sounds like a geolock, can you use a VPN/TOR to change your location if u can be bothered with the hasslre
I am in the EU. If you're not, probably a geolock.