It has nothing to do with that, scrapers can still scrape new reddit. This is just a hostile action to move visitors to a site that shows more ads.
https://www.reddit.com/r/modnews/comments/1ujtebf/logging_in...
> Old Reddit’s logged-out experience is a significant source of abusive scraping and automated traffic on the platform.
It has nothing to do with that, scrapers can still scrape new reddit. This is just a hostile action to move visitors to a site that shows more ads.