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just making sure they can't recreate my deleted posts and comments even in a disassociated state after they delete my account. (sopuli.xyz)
submitted 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) by to c/RedditMigration@kbin.social
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I found a plug-in for Firefox that deletes all posts and comments from your reddit account. (Power Delete Suite). Now I am in talks with reddit, to have them delete my account and data.

They say that all content will be disassociated when I delete my account but I had them confirm that they won't recreate it when I have deleted it. They still say that they will retain the IP used for creating the account. Not sure if this is legitimate data redemption after I have asked for my data to be deleted according to GDPR?

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[–] [S] 0 points 3 years ago (3 children)

I actually did make a GDPR request asking Reddit to delete all my posts and comments, but they said that they can delete my account and personal data, but will retain content as it will then be disassociated. I repeadedly asked them to delete my conent but they told me that i had to do this before deleting my account! This is why I requested that they did not recreate the posts that I had deleted using that script. It seems to have done the job though

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Yeah, the point of the GDPR request - the data retrieval request - is to get a copy of all posts and comments, which can then be feed into a script that does the actual deletion. Note - I'm not saying that reddit should not do the deletion themselves - in fact I feel that they should, seeing how hard they make it to do it ourselves with their stupid limits.

    Why do we need to ask reddit for a copy of all our comments to delete them? Because reddit has hidden limits and you can think you've deleted everything, only to realize too late (after you deleted your account) that a bunch of stuff got missed and now can no longer be deleted. See for example https://kbin.social/m/RedditMigration/t/46805/Strange-phenomenon-while-deleting-my-comments and https://kbin.social/m/RedditMigration/t/172540/How-can-I-automate-the-process-of-deleting-my-remaining and https://kbin.social/m/RedditMigration/p/425000/If-you-re-nuking-your-old-reddit-content-this-might-be

    Worse, all tools like PDS will give a false sense of security here. You'll see from your profile that you have no posts and no comments left, but then you Google your own reddit username and find a bunch of stuff. (It's actually reddit and not the tools like PDS to blame for that false sense of security.)

    It seems to have done the job though

    My question is - how do you know? how did you check?

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  • [–] [S] 0 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    you are right! I only checked on my profile, so can't be sure. It's just misleading though if they still keep them. Anyway, it seems that they have already removed my account or at least removed access to it to me so there is not much to be done now i guess. That went a lot faster than i had expected

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    you are right! I only checked on my profile, so can’t be sure. It’s just misleading though if they still keep them.

    Yup, that's kind of one of the biggest issues with them actually. It's incredibly misleading!

    Anyway, it seems that they have already removed my account or at least removed access to it to me so there is not much to be done now i guess.

    Yeah, I've heard this story before. Hopefully PDS got all of yours and hopefully this post will help others as well.

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