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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

They'll probably just use it anyway, unfortunately.

Now that we've given them the data, there's not much we can do.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you're in the EU have a look at Art 15&17 GDPR. I'm so gonna have fun with them...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It's going to be interesting seeing how they cope with the flood of GDPR requests, especially when there's a 30-day time limit.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I tried nuking mine and they restored everything. At least I have the power not to give them anything more.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

me as well - it's all back.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I keep running Power Delete Suite and the comments keep getting restored. Pretty shifty of them.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Is shreddit working to do a mass edit? That is what I am thinking of doing.

Maybe try to replace everything with various lengths of ipsum dolor to try to fool whatever detection reddit is using. Over a period of a few days too.