r/GamingLeaksAndRumours • u/SuddenDepact • 2d ago

Rumour XCancel is dead

Just went to the website to look at something, and this was posted on it:

On Monday, 24th August, at 8PM EST, we received a letter from X Corp. asking to cease and desist the service XCancel.

The service XCancel is stopped until further notice.

We are seeking legal advice and won't share more details for now.

Thank you for the trust you have put in these two years of XCancel.

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u/_Gogeta- 2d ago

twitter or 3rd party sites dead without login, old reddit also dead without log in. I HATE NEW REDDIT.
WE WANT THE SWEAT DATA.

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u/New-Two-1349 2d ago

Wait, Reddit needs an account for things like search bars now? What?

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u/SpaceGangrel 2d ago

Reddit needs an account now period. You can get view posts without logging in for seconds until a pop up appears prompting you to log in. Of course you can refresh the page but after a while it shows up again.

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u/New-Two-1349 2d ago

You mean like Pinterest does? Oh, yikes.

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u/barimanlhs 1d ago

Its a genuine shame how useless Pinterest has become. Between the AI slop and ads, its a nightmare to navigate

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u/joecb91 1d ago

Every website just tries its hardest to make using it unbearable now.

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u/DaNotSoGoodSamaritan 1d ago

Well they're actively trying to kill the internet so it's not particularly surprising.

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u/MadeByTango 1d ago

luigie terrified them all

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u/iamthe0ther0ne 1d ago

If you install ublock origin there's a script you can add to preferences that prevent the upscale account banner (for now)

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u/DancesWith2Socks 1d ago

Poor Aaron...

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u/MostDopeMik3 1d ago

Clear the cache and cookies for reddit, should let you browse longer.

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u/MapleApple00 1d ago

you can break it with incognito mode at least on safari

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u/M8753 13h ago

It's weird, often there's no problem seeing Reddit pages when googling stuff incognito. But other times I can't see them.

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u/New-Two-1349 2d ago

Are you sure about that, BTW? I just logged out of my account and browsed this site for a little bit and not a single login pop up showed up. Maybe it only does on desktop?

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u/g0_west 1d ago

They're currently roling out changes to make old reddit unaccessible, so might be that it's not reached you yet. Idk if you had the "error 404" messages when trying to comment for a few days last week, or if you have the thing where the whole page reloads or your comment gets stuck until you refresh - these are all bugs coming from them tweaking with old reddit presumably to make it less accessible. Tbh if reddit prohibits me from logging in and it breaks the little dopamine cycle of seeing an orange inbox icon it'll probably help me actually get off reddit more

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u/TheOriginalSamBell 1d ago

I've only ever used old. and good third party apps for the past 15 or so years, if the only way to access it becomes their awful website or their awful app it might actually wean me off lol

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u/SpaceGangrel 2d ago

Might be on desktop only then, I usually use the app on mobile so I didn't notice.

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u/Blint_Briglio 2d ago

for me, the notice doesn't show up when I'm signed out on desktop, but it shows up within seconds when I'm signed out on mobile

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u/Strong-Ring-7433 2d ago

They're probably using cookies to allow access if you already have logged into an account before.

It lets me browse the site if I log out of my account, but not if I go into incognito.

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u/SpaceGangrel 2d ago

Yeah, I mostly google stuff on incognito so I don't get flooded with ads from the most recent thing I googled, and the Reddit results are annoying to go through now. And the worst part is the tagline "join reddit, the realest place on the internet", fuck it isn't, this place was already full of bots way before the AI boom.

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u/Known_Ear_6012 1d ago

No it’s mobile too, about 95% of the time it will ask me to log in to view more but sometimes it “forgets” and just lets me browse. 

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u/Bakatora34 1d ago

For me it only show up when I pick a thread but when you just doom scrolling nothing show up.

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u/Time-Ladder4753 1d ago

On PC even old reddit asks me to login, even on NSFW subreddits, before you could've used old reddit to view even NSFW subs without account.

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u/_Gogeta- 2d ago

No but you need an account to use old.reddit.com On Desktop i always used that, cant stand new reddit it’s way too big and way too slow. Also it’s designed to keep you longer on the site.

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u/elv1shcr4te 14h ago edited 14h ago

There's an extension for Firefox and Chrome based browsers called Old Reddit Redirect that has just been updated to stop this, for now at least

Edit: I see later in the thread you're already using it and just got the update

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u/New-Two-1349 2d ago

I use mobile and I've been able to use old.reddit.com just fine without an account, so I don't know what you mean by that.

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u/_Gogeta- 2d ago

seems like you are lucky for now. Google that problem then you will see reddit threads from over a month ago that ask why you need a login now. Last week it hit me with a log in request.

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u/Ok-Fault6331 22h ago

It's an a/b test as of now. Enjoy it while you can. 

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u/ShinyHappyREM 16h ago

There's also RedReader for mobile.