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:
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Why aren’t they just making the new version better, so that people are happy to use it?
The old reddit was optimized for users, then new reddit is optimized for the shareholders to maximize profit, this is why it is shitty.
It has a technical name: enshittification
They want the shareholders happy, not the people.
People are the product.
Afaik they got tired of winning, and want their users to use Lemmy instead.
“Better” means extracting as much data and value from users as possible to appease the Capitalist machine. What users want or need is irrelevant.