Reddit further restricts access to 'Old Reddit' to fight AI scraping
Reddit says it is tightening access to its legacy 'Old Reddit' interface as part of a broader push to curb automated traffic and AI data scraping.
Written by EGazette’s AI. The facts are drawn from cited sources; the analysis is the AI’s own.
Reddit is further limiting who can access the "Old Reddit" version of its site as part of an ongoing effort to combat scraping and automated traffic, the company has said.
The platform recently began requiring users to log in in order to use Old Reddit, and the company says that within the "next few months" users will need to be logged in and meet additional requirements to continue accessing the legacy interface.
The change is aimed at curbing bots and AI systems that have used the older, simpler version of the site to scrape content at scale, a practice Reddit has increasingly sought to restrict as it looks to control how its data is used to train artificial intelligence systems.
Old Reddit has long been favored by a segment of the platform's users for its stripped-down design compared with the modern Reddit interface, and further restrictions are likely to draw pushback from that community even as the company frames the move as a defense against automated abuse.
Reddit has not specified the exact criteria users will need to meet to retain Old Reddit access once the tightened requirements take effect.
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