Not users - people/bots with malicious intent against the site.
Comment on this absolute bullshit from reddit
some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world 20 hours agoProtections from… users reading text?
daychilde@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
davidagain@lemmy.world 13 hours 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.
DonGirses@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
tHe ChIldREn
WoodScientist@lemmy.world 20 hours 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.
GalacticRobot@lemmy.world 11 hours 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.