Reddit has begun rolling out mandatory age verification for any NSFW content, as well as for some social media functions, if the AI determines you might be under a certain age.

Another good day to be on Lemmy… until the surveillance capitalist tech overlords lobby enough to get their great firewall of the West, anyway.

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    • FineCoatMummy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      14 hours ago

      Read-only use of old reddit was the only way I use it. There are actualyl some good resources for niche topics. You can search, like how do I disassemble my electric toothbrush to replace the battery the mfg sealed into the unit. Somebody prob posted about it. Or weird game trivia. W/e.

      Read only searching was the best remaining use for reddit. Which will now die.

    • Icedrous@lemmy.caEnglish
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      17 hours ago

      The website includes a quote from a Reddit employee:

      Old Reddit’s logged-out experience is a significant source of abusive scraping and automated traffic on the platform. It’s also an important interface for many long-time mods and Redditors. To strike the right balance between preserving your access to Old Reddit while preventing abusive scraping and automated traffic, over the next month we will start requiring everyone to log in.

      I didn’t realize casually browsing a website is “abusive scraping”. Isn’t that the equivalent of claiming that reading a news article online is “abusive scraping”?

      • iamthetot@piefed.caEnglish
        11·
        15 hours ago

        That quote doesn’t say that casually browsing is abusive scraping. I really hate that you’re making me defend Reddit here, but two things can be true at the same time: you use it for casual browsing, and it is a significant source of abusive scraping for them.

        • Icedrous@lemmy.caEnglish
          2·
          15 hours ago

          That is true, two things can be true at once. I sometimes fail to realize that.