Comment on this absolute bullshit from reddit

• WoodScientist@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Exactly. That’s why I mentioned lurking. I haven’t participated in reddit for quite awhile, not after getting permabanned for dubious reasons. But I’ll still lurk, especially on some of the niche community subreddits. I also cannot fathom what someone just reading text might need protection from. I can certainly see it for commenting, but you’ve always had to be logged in to do that anyway.

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  • GalacticRobot@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It’s to stop automated scrapping. Old reddit has less/little/no protections from that. New reddit has a lot more in place. So when you log in (which now you can only make an account with new reddit), it tracks a lot more information so it’s more difficult to get around bans. Basically stops the majority of automated scraping, which reddit doesn’t want.

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• DonGirses@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  tHe ChIldREn

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• daychilde@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Not users - people/bots with malicious intent against the site.

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  • davidagain@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Malicious intent to sell the free content that reddit sells? The only thing this is protecting is profits. They’re just pulling up the ladder, that’s all.

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