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Reddit removes years of chat and message archives from users' accounts(mashable.com)

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Reddit removes years of chat and message archives from users’ accounts::undefined

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Cloudless ☼@feddit.uk
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Text takes very little space, so I don’t think it is mainly about storage costs.

I think they just want to save the data migration costs.

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vzq@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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They want to sell it to AI companies, so they need to make sure they can’t scrape it.

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JackbyDev@programming.dev
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Heo the hell do you scrape private chat logs? lol. Get a grip.

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kereshnull@infosec.pub
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You cannot sell active data without explicit consent but what if data that has been “deleted” accidentally gets shared with a 3rd party 🙈

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