I think the only solution currently is to use something like Redact to mass edit your posts and comments to remove the data that you have input into the site. Reddit lives or dies on the information that users post/comment on it.

Sign me up for the class action. I was thinking of just spinning up a selenium script because I’ve tried using one of the bots to delete post history before, and it didn’t work, so I was assuming the API was resisting. Disappointing to see that even clicking through everything doesn’t work reliably.

Not only do they refuse to delete your comments, they do it in such an underhanded way - quietly restoring everything after showing the user that the deletion was successful. For me personally, this is even worse than the whole killing 3rd party apps thing.

Un-deleting deleted comments is certainly sleazy, but I didn't realize it was illegal.

This feels like something that ought be reported to the EDPS. I’m sure they’ll be thrilled that an American company is holding user PII hostage.

Time to Europeans to take action!

Apparently, this was not actually Reddit restoring the comments, but rather privated subs being made public and therefore giving the illusion that reddit had restored everything on their account. Though it is dumb that you cannot access or delete content that you made on a sub that is private.

Will this realistically go anywhere? I have a strange feeling that this’ll just get swept under the rug. I hope it doesn’t turn out like that. Ideally, I’ll like to see some charges/legal proceedings brought up right ahead of their IPO.

The Reddit User Agreement Section 5 clearly states that you own your data:

You retain any ownership rights you have in Your Content

So you could try to use that argument to get what you want.

The agreement also continues to say you grant them a license to use this content which can not be taken away. But I would argue that if you decide to remove your content then there is nothing to license away. In other words the license is still there but the content is gone.

Of course that's just my personal interpretation. Law is a fucked up thing that doesn't follow any logic. If you're lucky your country/state might have laws that work on your favour.

Not surprising. That's the stuff their after anyway. Im trying to cut myself from this type of thing, as much as possible for sure.

So what's the penalty for violating the CCPA?

BTW CCPA != GDPR. They do similar things but are for different jurisdictions. If they openly break GDPR the EU will basically maul them, I imagine.

It doesn't show that Reddit owns you. It shows that we can majorly stick it to Reddit by reporting them to the appropriate agencies. A GDPR violation fine will hurt them badly