This video shows that Reddit refused to delete all comments and posts of its users when they close their account via a CCPA / GDPR request.
This is absolutely insane, and shows that companies OWN you.
Sign me up for the class action. I was thinking of just spinning up a selenium script because I’ve tried using one of the bots to delete post history before, and it didn’t work, so I was assuming the API was resisting. Disappointing to see that even clicking through everything doesn’t work reliably.
That would be my suggestion as well. There’s a chance that all reddit users will be part of the class, but there’s also a chance that only users who attempted to delete data or request that data be deleted will be part of the class.
Attempt to edit and/or delete a few of your comments at the very least and prepare for the class action lawsuit. It’ll probably take a couple years, but there’s no way that some law firm isn’t already looking into it and gearing up to start the process. There’s a particular law firm that I follow that has gotten some really good settlements from social media companies such as this one against facebook. I would believe that if anyone decides to take on a data privacy issue against a large social media company, it would be them.
I think the only solution currently is to use something like Redact to mass edit your posts and comments to remove the data that you have input into the site. Reddit lives or dies on the information that users post/comment on it.
I personally believe that reddit is the type of company to save the orginal post and revert it just out of spite
This honestly is much worse than twitter, because atleast with twitter, I didnt see them doing this typa shit
I personally believe that reddit is the type of company to save the orginal post and revert it just out of spite
They have been reverting them. I’ve been observing it in action my my Reddit account as I delete things. Even old posts that I recall deleting years ago (like random things on r/Hearthstone after I stopped playing Blizzard games) have been making a return over the past month. I’ve been going in and doing batches of edits to my post history every few days, and editing it differently. From ten years ago to now, I’ve had posts re-appearing and the edits getting un-edited.
Wild.
I’ve been going in and doing batches of edits to my post history every few days, and editing it differently. From ten years ago to now, I’ve had posts re-appearing and the edits getting un-edited.
Are you absolutely certain? I just as well might not bother with the mass edit then.
Note that redact doesn’t always get everything. https://kbin.social/m/RedditMigration/t/46805/Strange-phenomenon-while-deleting-my-comments
But agree with the idea. The best way is to use a tool to mass edit and then mass delete. For example https://kbin.social/m/RedditMigration/t/65260/PSA-Here-s-exactly-what-to-do-if-you-hit-the
How do you know they don’t keep post revisions too? It’s trivial to implement and probably not much more data.
That’s my point. I doubt altering comments would have any advantage over deleting them. You just hide what you wrote from other peasants but not from Reddit.
Word is that they don’t, deletes are soft-deletes but edits aren’t so reversible.
In this specific case it looks like it might just be that specific sub being private on the day he deleted, https://kbin.social/m/RedditMigration/t/99466/Reddit-violates-CCPA#entry-comment-406442
Watching the video i see him deleting from 11 months ago to 12 years ago. But don’t see the specific 3 year old posts on r/javascript. Which would be consistent with not being able to see them due to the sub being private.
When it was open source, they didn’t. But it’s closed source now. So who knows. Reddit says they don’t, but they have lied before, so who knows.
They mentioned shreddit able to delete more using some kind of archive but it’s $15.
Is that the only service to offer that service or are there any free/cheaper options that do the same?
Not only do they refuse to delete your comments, they do it in such an underhanded way - quietly restoring everything after showing the user that the deletion was successful. For me personally, this is even worse than the whole killing 3rd party apps thing.
Ah, well, that’s what they are used to. All that obscurity in recommendations, weird way comment scores change over time (bots they don’t fight or their own messing), weird way those affect karma, inconsistent application of rules, and so on.
Social media mods like obscurity which is alone a sufficient reason not to use that crap.
Un-deleting deleted comments is certainly sleazy, but I didn’t realize it was illegal.
Under the CCPA you own your data. That data should be deleted under request.
Same thing with the European GPDR
You can request your data too (like on discord)
It depends. If undeleted comments included your personal data, like IP address, home adress or your real name, it certainly is illegal
Is it just me or is there an unethical way to try and entrap reddit here by posting your real name, deleting the post, and seeing what happens?
Time to Europeans to take action!