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Reddit removes years of chat and message archives from users' accounts (mashable.com)
submitted 3 years ago by [M, B] to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Reddit removes years of chat and message archives from users' accounts::undefined

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[–] 16 points 3 years ago (1 child)

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

    They want to sell it to AI companies, so they need to make sure they can’t scrape it.

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