As of a few minutes ago old.reddit.com now seems to requre logging in to access it.
Shame as it was still the best place to browse for info about some niche interests.
Edit: Seems like they might be testing the change as it is hit or miss at the moment.
Edit: Adding this to My flilters in uBlock Origin seems to fix the issue for the time being:
||reddit.com^$header=referer:
I basically can only browse in a private window because of the incessant nag screen.
Once that gets patched out it’ll be only Lemmy for me. I just hope a larger community of people move over.