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Has reddit addressed the forced restoration of deleted comments in interviews? (lemmy.pub)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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I have been increasingly having to re-run my purge scripts across multiple accounts, despite not being on reddit for a few weeks now. The longer i wait between logging in and purging comments, the more appear.

And they do appear quasi-random, as if they page/comments get restored when another user pulls/visits an older page.

How does this even square with privacy regulations anyhow. If a user wants to delete their comments, forcibly restoring them against their will is, at best, unseemly.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

As far as I know, it didn't. And if it addresses it, I expect it to say something like "oopsie this is a bug / an accident / and oversight, trust us, we didn't it on purpose".

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Yeah. wouldnt be shocked. Interesting part is they used to say they only kept a history of 1 edit. So overwriting your comments then saving and deleting was a sure way to purge your history.

My scripts do just that with javascript. But still the whole comment is restored. No way thats a bug to me.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Yeah, places that have “right to be forgotten” laws should be monitoring and logging proof of examples over a period of time where deleted comments and posts are restored.

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

No they basically said its their data according to the TOS (they actually believe that shit lol) and that they can use jt however they want. So said spez in one of his dumpster fire interviews.