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Time to get rid of my Reddit account - Seeking advice
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I've heard too many stories about people using different tools to delete posts and comments just for them to be restored. I went through and just manually deleted everything. It took a while, but nothing was brought back.
Of course that could also just mean anything I posted wasn't cool enough to restore....
I used shreddit back in the day which used reddit api and gdpr files to rewrite and delete all comments based on the direct links provided by the gdpr files. Its hard to get reddit api key now. But, nothing got restored.
I think people who said their comments were restored used things like power delete suite which relies on comments it can see based on your profile on old.reddit. There was a limit to the amount of comments it showed like 1000. So it would delete 1000 comments and not show anything. But, then later repopulate the profile with the next set of 1000 after a few days.
So what they thought was reddit restoring comments might have been comments that hadn't been rewritten/deleted showing up.
Yeah going down the manual seems to be the better way to go, the more research I do, the more I come to this same conclusion