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Old Reddit could be the next casualty of Reddit's war on AI scraping

Reddit's efforts to block AI scraping may inadvertently take down Old Reddit, as users report 403 errors on the legacy interface. The errors, generated by CloudFront, suggest Reddit is tightening access controls, potentially affecting long-time users who prefer the old design.

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