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.
Would breaking a ton of rules and getting the account banned remove all the content?
I don’t think so, your comments should still be there, only the account appears as [deleted].
I think it can if you use power delete suite to edit all your comments but dont delete them. I’m hoping it trips up the detection and I would recommend people do the same
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.
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”
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.
I wish I lived in the EU lmao I envy your guys privacy laws
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.
According to Reddit, there is no official mass deletion toll, meaning the company is not in compliance with the CCPA.
Well shit. Deleted all my comments yesterday and today they are all back.
I was made aware of this tool Redact - which deletes your digital footprint.
That might be something worth trying?https://redact.dev/
https://www.reddit.com/r/RedditAlternatives/comments/145g5a1/thank_you_spez/jnlklho/?context=3Thanks to u/Hokulewa
I did look into it yesterday but the closed-source nature of it and having to share one’s login data does seem kinda sus.
Handing over credentials to a potential bad actor is absolutely a valid concern… unless you didn’t verify email and have no interest in using the account again.
In that case it becomes an effective means of protest. ;)
What if you edit them all?
I just tried doing that with power delete suite but I didnt have it remove the comments just edited them with this “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”
I would recommend people do something similar as deleting your account and posts doesnt seem to help.
Did you use the fork of Power Delete Suite that waits 5 seconds between each edit? That seems to have worked to have my edits stay permanent.
Which fork is that? There’s like a bajillion different forks and none of the most recently updated one mention anything about a timer :/
I deleted my comments and edited them but they keep coming back. I have notified the authorities in my country. No idea if anything will come of it though.
Try using the fork of Power Delete Suite that waits 5 seconds between each edit. That seemed to work for me.
wow, kinda makes me glad I deleted mine the day before all this started 😳
I would check again to make sure
I have a feeling they’re going to undelete any activity within the past or next few weeks. I personally am leaving Reddit alone for now. In another two or three weeks (months?), I plan to go in and delete all my old posts slowly over time (or replace with some statement about moving to kbin social).
I’ll likely write a manual automated script to parse through and overwrite over a decade’s worth of comments/postings to ensure it’s erased/gone.
But for now I’ve blocked the reddit domains from my router so I don’t accidentally visit the site and ensure they see zero traffic from my IP address
