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Comment by sillywalk

2 days ago

I ~~can't~~ won't use the new ( decade+ old? )reddit.

From the Reddit Post announcing this, :

"In case you are wondering . . .

Q: Is Reddit shutting down Old Reddit? A: Not right now! We can’t promise it will be around forever, but u/spez himself has said we’ll keep supporting it while folks are still using it. That said, it doesn’t have the same modern security tech stack reddit.com has so we need to tighten security on old reddit to keep it viable."[0]

[0] https://old.reddit.com/r/modnews/comments/1ujtebf/logging_in...

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baranul  11 hours ago

Unfortunately, that does partially make sense about old.reddit security and is a slick way to push log ins.

But the thing about old.reddit, was you did not need JavaScript to use and browse, which is more secure. Looks more like reddit brass wants to find ways to squeeze old.reddit for more ad pushing and to suck up more user data.

rekabis  1 day ago

> it doesn’t have the same modern security tech stack reddit.com has so we need to tighten security on old reddit to keep it viable.

This is how you justify it to anyone who doesn’t know web dev.

For those who do, it’s an idiotic statement. The only difference between new Reddit and old Reddit is the visual styling and how content is presented. Both have all the same security.

  • altairprime  1 day ago

    They don’t mean websec, they mean textsec. The old site doesn’t have the level of text scraper defenses that the new site does, without which Reddit can’t monetize the written output of their userbase for AI training. Putting old behind a login wall solves that.

    Having previously recommended on HN that blogs put up a simple basicauth that takes any password to stop AI theft dead in its tracks, I definitely agree with their reasoning; if nothing else, it’ll result in an honest accounting of users left using it.