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Having worked at a company that had a massive influx of GDPR requests we weren’t prepared for, this one could actually cause them some trouble if Reddit don’t have that process properly automated.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I've done this, but how much time is needed to automate it? If it's 1-2 week they can just automate and then process all the past and future requests in buk

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Still means that they have a problem to resolve which is a w

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

I was a redditor for 15 fucking years before they suspended all of my accounts after a mod permabanned me from /politics and I accidentally posted from another account weeks later.

I posted A LOT over those years, from a ton of various accounts. (One of my biggest fears was getting doxxed so I had a bunch of burners and accounts for specific niche interests and such.)

Just requested full data history for all ~10 of my accounts. Fuck reddit.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Request submitted

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well my account is not that old, but i did my part.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Done as well

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Awesome idea! Just threw in my request.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Done and done!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Kk going hard.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I did it on all my alts lol.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Quite a longer process I think. In the end the only nice thing I got from this whole mess is to discover lemmy. I also suggest everyone to check Mastodon as Twitter alternative. Fk monopolies ✊️

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Already nuking my account, and im not in the eu/us region

Can still participate?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Yes 100%. They have an EU presence so this applies to all the data they hold about anyone.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm not in either and could still request it: http://www.reddit.com/settings/data-request

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I did my part

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