I do not live in California or the EU. What can I do?
What’s the harm in trying a gpdr deletion request?
Alternatively you can edit all your comments to something else, but don’t do fuck spez, then delete it after a week.
I recall reading that they won’t do anything as the comments are content that you willingly submitted. The most they will do is suggest you delete your account to “anonymise” them, but all that does is replace the username with “[deleted]”.
You can use a tool like Shreddit to edit and remove all of your comments in bulk. Feeding it your GDPR SAR folder will allow it to get past the 1000 comment backlog limit.
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Could be a reddit CDN issue. That was their main excuse for when it was happening back in June. AFAIK since then it hasn’t been happening.
I believe the latest advice is to use power delete suite with a delay in between each delete. This supposedly tricks reddit into thinking that you deleted the posts manually rather than automatically, and apparently in that case they stay deleted.
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Try editing from the individual comments themselves, rather than from your profile. Click the permalink.
I second this, and report back OP.
Are you sure? I thought they were restoring my comments but it was a combo of several things:
The user profile page only shows about 1000 posts so sometimes when you clears out your account a few older ones pop up. If you sort by hot/new/month/year/etc you will find more
If a subreddit was private for the protest (some still are even now) and came back up (some are coming back up even now for some reason) the posts will suddenly repopulate your feed
Those are the main ones. That said, I wouldn’t be shocked if Reddit was doing this as the library of content is a huge part of their valuation
Get your data from their gdpr request tool and use it to erase your account with shreddit or redact.dev. Don’t delete your Reddit account just yet; once it’s deleted you can no longer delete or edit posts. Consider just editing the posts instead of deleting so that Reddit archives are permanently updated with nonsense. File a request with pushshift to have your data removed as well (which is significantly easier, just a google form). Note that it’s something you’ll have to keep checking in on as Reddit is actively working to break these tools - afaik redact.dev doesn’t work to delete Reddit posts at the moment; it will let you view your Reddit posts but if you attempt to delete them it will immediately deauth your account but the devs are actively working on this and are pretty responsive and confident they’ll have a fix. Shreddit seems to still work, at least the rust build, but that’s not as user friendly
‘oh no’ the horror
