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Reddit keeps undeleting my account and posts. Is there anything I can do as an American Citizen? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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This is pissing me off to no end. I went on reddit and signed in out of habbit as I have a couple times already and before my account was gone and it wouldnt let me sign in.

Now I did it again and realized that my account actually was undeleted and allowed me to login AND all the posts that I overwrited and deleted with Power Delete Suite where back. I am so pissed right now.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes, overwriting with gibberish is better than deleting, especially since reddit has backups and I've seen a few people saying their stuff was restored.

Apps unfortunately have limits in how many posts/comments they can fetch, but overwriting some is better than nothing I guess.

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

Yeah, it seems if you run power delete suite a few times it covers them all, I had it edit about 4000 comments with "I deleted my reddit account and all my comments and posts but reddit has decided to undelete my account and comments so I have decided to let people know. Fuck this stupid site"

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I tried to use power delete to download my stuff, but it always truncated data, I guess I was too much active on reddit lol, I also tried going one sub at a time but it was too much hassle, so I sent a GDPR request, much easier.

Deleting now won't work I think, reddit is monitoring very closely what people are doing, they're trying to limit the damage as much as possible.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I wish I lived in the EU lmao I envy your guys privacy laws

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

Doesn't make much difference with Reddit - I have seen plenty of people say that they have tried submitting GDPR requests and never received anything.

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

One can only hope that reddit will be hit by a billion dollar fine from the EU lol

Loved the place but it's gone to shit and now they want to ubermonetize it. It was never run like a business and now they complain that it's not making money like a business should. Fuck em

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

Always check up with local data protection authorities, and if those dont properly handle your request either you can take legal action against either. As a citizen of the EU it is your right to do so.