I might have to look more into my state’s right to be forgotten law. I used PDS for about 2 weeks until no more zombie posts were in my profile (most resurrected by the opening of closed subs). I was cleaning out some gaming book marks and clicked on a reddit thread I’d kept and, lo and behold, I found myself in the comments. Except I’d purged all of those. And searching for myself yields no results. This is…disappointing.
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Does it work on permanently suspended accounts?
(The reason for was for “mod abuse” for reporting too much misinformation in a right-wing safe space subreddit, in case anybody was wondering.)
Is it just me or is “permanently suspended” an oxymoron?
Yeah, it’s stupidly euphemistic. I’m not sure if that language is used just to distinguish it as a sitewide action by the admins (as opposed to a single-subreddit “ban” from that sub’s mods), or if there’s some more calculated/nefarious reason for it (maybe being “banned” from an account has legal implications that being “suspended” doesn’t?).
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So being banned means you forfeit control of your data? 🤔
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When you signed up to reddit, you accepted the User Agreement and gave reddit permission to use your data in any way they like:
A user agreement does not supercede federal law…
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You can’t have it both ways. What you’re saying is that a user agreement supercedes federal law (GDPR), and then turning around saying it doesn’t. Which one is it?
You forgot the important one.
Wait until you get the zip file
been waiting for weeks at this point
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If you’re allready making a GDPR request, why not use it to have them delete the account and all its contents?
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Commenting to find this easier later
There is a save feature on lemmy :)
Maybe there is, but I don’t see one easily accessible on Memmy
Your are right! I cannot find a way to save a comment on Lemmy. However, saving posts appears to be possible with the bookmark logo. I assume it is on the roadmap
Known issue for older accounts with more than 1,000 posts. You should be using the Google search site:Reddit.com username to return more content to delete.
You can also do a data request on Reddit which will deliver your data on spreadsheets.
I never had my deletions reversed. The only thing that did happen is when subreddits restored, I had to delete that content too.
I had 6 accounts. I now have zero.
Ugh, that’s extremely disappointing. I’ve got thousands of comments coming up on Google all the way back to 2009 that don’t show up on Reddit searches or my profile anymore. I wonder if there’s an automated way I can edit and then delete these.
Likewise - 11,500 hits on google
Remember Google still knows of your deleted content if you just did your account wipe. Those will take a few weeks to not show up.
There’s a premium service called Shreddit that will take your GDPR request files and delete them for you.
YSK though that your top results in Google are also likely to be the top traffic to Reddit. So deleting top down will remove those traffic sources to Reddit.
My top 5 results a month ago were also the posts that were driving questions via PM years later.
I didn’t pay to delete mine. I didn’t have as much as you guys to worry about. Maybe 400 or so. Every couple years I created new accounts. I lucked out because of it.
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The way listings work on reddit is very confusing to most users. I used to think that listings refilled once you removed things from them, but they don’t. If you have more than 1000 posts, comments, or whatever, you won’t ever see the 1001st thing.
Meaning that posts aren’t actually removed, just set to deleted in the database. Also means that they don’t use that deleted flag in the database query, instead filtering out the deleted posts after they have been retrieved, which in my mind would be a less efficient way to do it.
That’s why so many people tell you to edit your comments prior to deletion, I guess.
o7 Cmdr. Thanks for the hint, I’ve also used PDS a few weeks ago and Google is still finding lots of comments while my profile displays none :/
Old Reddit doesn’t search comments. 🤦
It does appear to. I can find myself by searching on my username in either the old. or current web versions, but it’s all people just referring to me - none of my posts show up. The author:overzeetop search returns no hits in both the old and new search engines.
I just double-checked, and Old Reddit search only shows posts.
