Chris 👾 (@chris@mstdn.games)
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Attached: 2 images 👿 PSA: #Reddit is restoring deleted and overwritten posts to save what they consider "their data". This is a new low and probably illegal at least in Europe. You can send a GDPR or CPRA request here: https://www.reddit.com/settings/data-request These are screenshots of my profile on June 14th before and after overwriting and then deleting all my posts with Powerdelete. Today, June 16th all my posts have been restored by Reddit without my knowledge or consent. #redditblackout #redditmigration #kbin #lemmy

I just logged in and checked my reddit account, and all my deleted posts have come back.

  • Alkalyon@lemmy.mlEnglish
    12·
    2 years ago

    I have already sent a GDPR request to Reddit and they refuse to comply.

    I asked them to delete everything they have about me, including my account and they told me that I need to login into reddit and ask it from there which:

    1. I don’t have to since GDPR says that I can even do it verbally and I don’t even have to write to a specific email, I can just let any employee of that company that I want this and they should honor it.
    2. They straight up don’t even have the option to delete your data there, since I requested for the complete erasure of my data as that is also in my rights.

    Reddit literally refuses to comply with GDPR rules and tonight after work I am going to lodge a formal complain about GDPR violations as I do have proof of this in my emails.

    Fuck Reddit I hope it crashes and burns.

  • AFK BRB Chocolate@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    2 years ago

    In another thread, someone mentioned that the scripts that delete comments don’t work if the sub is private, so it could be that people are thinking their content was deleted, but the deletion didn’t actually happen.

    I haven’t done it, so I can’t validate that.

  • Drinkoffee@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    2 years ago

    WTF!!! Thx for raising awareness. This is crossing a line.
    I guess next step would be not to delete posts but to edit them.

    • CynAq@kbin.social
      1·
      2 years ago

      Another user said they restore edited content too. They blanket restore anyone’s content which looks like it’s deleted by a script.

      I can’t go on and manually delete twelve years of comments, I don’t think anyone can.

      This will only be resolved if enough people take them to court and reddit is forced to add a complete data deletion option for all users.

      • ethane@kbin.social
        1·
        2 years ago

        That’s low. I wouldn’t put it past them, but I want to see proof before commenting on this.

  • whitehatbofh@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    2 years ago

    Rather than delete posts, I propose all rexxitors instead edit all of their posts and comments to say that they are leaving reddit for good to go to the fediverse instead. Such edits should provide links to major Fediverse sites and getting started guides, with advice for other redditors to abandon that place and join us here.

  • Beardliest@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    2 years ago

    Holy shit! They restored my comments that I deleted the other day. What a crock of shit. Fuck u/spez.

  • deo@kbin.social
    1·
    2 years ago

    This is why I edited all my comments to say that a certain CEO is a greedy little pig boy instead of straight on deleting them.

  • LChitman@kbin.social
    1·
    2 years ago

    Copying my comment from another thread below. I have since realised that Reddit does have to be GDPR compliant so it must be applicable, but does it apply to all content?

    Would this actually be a GDPR breach? I was thinking about the right to erasure/to be forgotten earlier in relation to a post I saw about how your posts aren’t deleted on other federated instances, if you delete them on your home server. But I figured it wasn’t applicable because it’s not personal data and I’m thinking the same about this Reddit issue. Can anyone set me straight?

    • Shindig@lemmy.worldOP
      2·
      2 years ago

      Yes, definition of personal data from GDPR:

      ‘personal data’ means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (‘data subject’); an identifiable natural person is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of that natural person;

  • samus12345@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    2 years ago

    After reading this, I’m deleting my post and comment history immediately, but not my account. I will check regularly and delete again if reddit tries to bring it back. Might as well make them work for it.

    • Ado@lemmy.mlEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      you can schedule deletions with redact.dev app, in case you wanna set it up automatically

  • SustainedChaos@kbin.social
    1·
    2 years ago

    Reddit restoring deleted comments somehow doesn’t surprise me. Their descent seems to be accelerating. Nice try, losers. I’m still not going back.

  • die444die@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    2 years ago

    So I overwrite my posts and deleted with power delete suite, then deleted my account, and I’ve gone back and looked for my most recent posts and comments and they are still indeed gone.

    I’m wondering if some people ran it while subs are already private and it simply wasn’t able to remove those posts and they didn’t show up until the subs became active again?

    Not sure, but it’s not everyone that’s affected apparently.

  • FIST_FILLET@kbin.social
    1·
    2 years ago

    thankful i used a script to mass-edit my profile, which seems to still be in effect (first and only time i visit a reddit URL post-spezdown, just directly typed my profile link so i don’t give the front page any “views” or “engagement” or whatever the corpo hogs are calling it now)

  • rycee@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    2 years ago

    Really? How does that play with jurisdictions that have right to right to be forgotten laws? Seems like a pretty risky play for them to restore deleted posts that were explicitly deleted by its author.

  • AlteredStateBlob@kbin.social
    1·
    2 years ago

    That is exactly why you should always edit your stuff before deleting it. Very few companies ever save more than the last version of your stuff, due to space and performance considerations. That way they can restore whatever they want, it’ll simply come out as “x” or whatever you put in there.

        • SolidGrue@lemmy.world
          1·
          2 years ago

          I scrubbed two accounts on the 13th, and they’re both back with the original posts as of this morning the 16th.

            • SolidGrue@lemmy.world
              1·
              2 years ago

              Hmmm, not to be an apologist, but I wonder if this isn’t a data set integrity problem on reddits end. I reran PowerDeleteSuite, and it “acted funny” through the process.

              When I checked my profile again, some posts were edited, and others were not. As I was paging through and manually editing the misses, the list of pages got shorder and shorter.

              Perhaps a cache flush? I’m not saying put away the pitchforks here, just… This is weird.

              • ShakeThatYam@lemmy.world
                1·
                2 years ago

                I will add that I periodically purge my account and this is the first time this has happened. Of course, this could be that it’s because a bunch of people are purging their accounts right now.