Even old.reddit.com has gotten bad. I have an annoying persistent problem that ads auto-play with sound, despite being disabled in my Reddit options and in my browser options. I've re-enabled and re-disabled all of these options and it still happens.
They (Reddit) claim that this is not expected behavior. Some other people have also reported this. No fixes.
I wonder if old.reddit.com is a freeze-dried old codebase in maintenance mode. If so, I would expect it to get worse over time, broken by accident, never prioritized to be fixed.
They (Reddit) claim that this is not expected behavior. Some other people have also reported this. No fixes.