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Reddit forces login to access old.reddit.com (arstechnica.com)
submitted 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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As of a few minutes ago old.reddit.com now seems to requre logging in to access it.

Shame as it was still the best place to browse for info about some niche interests.

Edit: Seems like they might be testing the change as it is hit or miss at the moment.

Edit: Adding this to My flilters in uBlock Origin seems to fix the issue for the time being:

||reddit.com^$header=referer:

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[–] 14 points 4 days ago (1 child)

I'd wager that older dumps are higher quality, before the mass redactions and deletions of the various exoduses. If you're looking for up to date information on current topics, it's time to look for (or build) other places.

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  • [–] 22 points 4 days ago

    These are Pushshift torrents from 2005 to 2025: https://sciop.net/datasets/reddit. There are two data sets, one by month and the other by subreddit. Each is about 3.5 TB compressed and based on the compression ratio I've seen, about 30 TB uncompressed. This is without any sort of media, just text.

    Reddit sent AcademicTorrents a request to take them down so AI models couldn't use them as a way to avoid paying Reddit hundreds of millions of dollars for training data.

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