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This video shows that Reddit refused to delete all comments and posts of its users when they close their account via a CCPA / GDPR request.

This is absolutely insane, and shows that companies OWN you.

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[–] SammichParade@vlemmy.net 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Does Reddit save edit history?

[–] abff08f4813c@kbin.social 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Word is that they don't, deletes are soft-deletes but edits aren't so reversible.

In this specific case it looks like it might just be that specific sub being private on the day he deleted, https://kbin.social/m/RedditMigration/t/99466/Reddit-violates-CCPA#entry-comment-406442

Watching the video i see him deleting from 11 months ago to 12 years ago. But don't see the specific 3 year old posts on r/javascript. Which would be consistent with not being able to see them due to the sub being private.

[–] aeternum@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

When it was open source, they didn't. But it's closed source now. So who knows. Reddit says they don't, but they have lied before, so who knows.

[–] eek2121@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

I was able to delete all my posts/comments without issue (My reddit username is different from this one fyi).

As you stated, the subreddit could gave been private. He also may have been viewing a stale cache.