Yeah, I bet that’s why they made the decision to require logins because the community that wanted to continue using reddit in ways they didn’t want them to could adapt to any other changes they made like within hours or minutes. They blocked the app API but their own website still needed a way to access posts and comments and that way could be hijacked by anything else that just pretended to be a normal user or a collection of normal users browsing normally.
Requiring a login won’t stop them. They will need to watermark comments per account in order to map sites that still get around it back to accounts to ban, though even that can be defeated by just using several accounts and comparing the comments to find out what the watermarks are and just strip them out entirely. Then just make sure the accounts that work together don’t do it in a consistent and detectable way and I don’t know how they would be able to respond to that.
Yeah, I bet that’s why they made the decision to require logins because the community that wanted to continue using reddit in ways they didn’t want them to could adapt to any other changes they made like within hours or minutes. They blocked the app API but their own website still needed a way to access posts and comments and that way could be hijacked by anything else that just pretended to be a normal user or a collection of normal users browsing normally.
Requiring a login won’t stop them. They will need to watermark comments per account in order to map sites that still get around it back to accounts to ban, though even that can be defeated by just using several accounts and comparing the comments to find out what the watermarks are and just strip them out entirely. Then just make sure the accounts that work together don’t do it in a consistent and detectable way and I don’t know how they would be able to respond to that.