YSK: you can still view Reddit posts anonymously
I've been hearing that Reddit is requiring an account now. But there's still a workaround. Use old.reddit.com + Tor Browser in the "Safest" security setting (aka Javascript disabled). This is the most private way to browse Reddit, and somehow, it still works. If it's not working, try clicking the menu and click "New Tor circuit for this site".
Unfortunately, as of just a few days ago, all the Stack Exchange sites now needs Javascript to view, because they use Cloudflare (and the workaround I was using stopped working). So I have to keep switching between Javascript enabled or disabled, depending on if I want to view a Reddit or StackExchange post. Annoying.
Edit: Redlib is also a great way to access Reddit anonymously. And even if Reddit ends up blocking the Tor workaround, I'm confident that Redlib will continue to work.
Edit2: ok looks like old.reddit.com isn't working anymore, you have to use the onion link. Still working as of 2026-08-22 8:00 UTC. Or just use RedLib.
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You can self host a copy a stack exchange and many other sites offline using kiwix. https://kiwix.org/
You can browse the availabe sites for self hosting at https://browse.library.kiwix.org/
Brilliant! The data seems to be updated monthly too. I'm surprised at how small some of the websites are, like ServerFault which is only 1.5 GB. StackOverflow is 100 GB but I have space for that.
Old reddit requires an account now.
redlib
Ok I tried. This is shit. After reading that fucking github without understanding what the point was. downloading Libredirect as instructed (which I had previously installed, and ditched for Redirector, because libredirect is shitty) , and still not knowing WHERE to redirect, I finally by random chance find a clear link here: https://github.com/redlib-org/redlib-instances/blob/main/instances.md
So redlib, is just a complicated way to get one of those link. BUT Those links (which is redlib without the extra step.. so link to them instead please) are shit
because the default visualisation is modern reddit, which is just a endless tiktok/insta/fb-like feed of shit. If you want to see past all the pile of shit , and then select the one post that might be a good one, you have to select the "compact" visualisation. You can change that in Setting. Great.
BUT
Now, we have the second shitty UI implementation: they miss the basic feature that old reddit and LEMMY use. 1 click preview of image or text, without quitting the actual page. Without that feature, every thing need 2 clic and 2 move across the screen : you clic a thing that might be cool, that open the second page with the image/video/text.. you realize it was shit, you have to move the mouse to go back in your browser, and clic there. Then move back to the next image, clic it... and so on.
Without the one clic preview, all those feed app are shit. You cant find anything without an extended amount of time or endless scrolling..
The good new in all that is that Lemmy was very well done. It has the perfect UI to favor the finding of information, instead of favoring mindless scrolling. But the pile in Lemmy is small, and you have to skim through reddit to find some interesting stuff still... and with the death of old reddit, you cant anymore.
Yup, Redlib is also a great tool, I'll edit the post to mention it, thanks.
Do you use anything for Stack Exchange?
Also use the LibRedirect extension to automatically change it to redlib. Btw, there are many other privacy focused alternatives in the LibRedirect settings that you should look at too.
I also recommend LibRedirect, it has lots of sites covered like Reddit, StackExchange, Twitter and even Geeks for Geeks
Yep.
every-time someone post a github link, i spend 2h trying to get it to work, and it doesnt... I dont even know what the purpose of github is, why everyone link to it, and why it is so complicated to have anything on it to run
Its a version control system for software developers. Different projects will release software with it in different ways - basically every way that software can be distributed, including compiling it to machine code yourself, some project on GitHub will share their software that way
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That's a lot of work to be honest. Anyway, I mostly only go (went) to reddit after googling something and a reddit thread shows up in the results.
Same, which is why I still need to view reddit sometimes, and I'd rather do it anonymously.
(Though if you're using Google I guess that anonymity is already out the window)
“Oh hey! A way to browse Reddit now that old.Reddit.com has a login wall”
Wut?
Did you miss the part where you must disable Javascript?
Private browsing or an incognito tab works for me too.