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Reddit makes it impossible to delete PII, refuses to do it itself violating GDPR (youtu.be)

submitted 1 year ago by ruffsl to c/[email protected]

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cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/251752

It is important to note that although this may be a result of Reddit's UI not displaying the content users posted to now-private subreddits, it remains a problem. Additionally, I agree with the author's comments in the video description, as it appears strategically unrealistic for Reddit to ask that users manually delete the content themselves.

This is particularly true when considering that many automated methods to accomplish this task will be hindered by Reddit's upcoming API pricing changes. Furthermore, Reddit has demonstrated a recurring pattern of rolling back databases using historical backups, thereby disregarding user deletion requests that were submitted prior to the database rollback.

See similar discussion of this video on Hacker News:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36482168

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[–] r0bbbo 37 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I overwrote then deleted all of my comments a few weeks ago—they were all back in their original form last week. I’ve since run the process again and already old comments are starting to reappear

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I used a small script I made by running it in the Comments and also in Posts section of Profile and it worked fine. So far none of the comments or posts have been restored, but I don't know if it's just the fact that I didn't have that many comments or posts to begin with (like 5-6 posts and around 200-300 comments). Regardless, I'm still keeping my account for a bit so I can monitor for a month or two what happens. Here's the script I used: https://pastebin.com/1w2nhCn9

Note that my JavaScript skills are not that great, but it should work. Might need to scroll down the page first though since not all the comments/posts are necessarily loaded right away.

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