Actually old reddit doesn’t work that way anymore lol you must login or use crappy reddit, which is exactly to your point though! They will just keep making it harder and harder until you simply can’t, but by then so a few people will be “opting in/out” that they’ll argue nobody wants the ability to toggle that anyway.

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qbit42 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I think the old reddit redirect extension gets around this somehow, that has worked for me lately (occasionally with some toggling of the extension). Although maybe it's best to just use less reddit tbh

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maybewhenthesun 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Not anymore :-(

But it's a good thing, actually because: - when reddit is good it's way to addictive - reddit has become nearly as bad as most other social media sites

So if they force me to use an account, I'll finally be able to kick the habit ;-)

	▲	megagpt3 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Reddit has been akin to Facebook since around 2022.

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KingMob 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

You don't always need an extension to use old.reddit.com, it's an actual setting if you're logged in.

The real problem is that old.reddit.com and its ecosystem are all becoming worse and worse. Just off the top of my head, things like image galleries, message notifications, RemindMe bot, RES, /r/random, etc all have various problems and breakage.

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Forgeties79 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I resigned as a mod after the API shitshow and am so glad I did. It’s a terrible site. I wind up there every month or two from friends or looking something up, it’s hard to see how much of a cesspool it is when you’re so invested in it and up close.

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kelvinjps10 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I use redlib https://github.com/redlib-org/redlib and librediret instead.