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PowerDeleteSuite still works for nuking your Reddit history (github.com)
submitted 8 months ago by downdaemon@lemmy.ml to c/reddit@lemmy.ml
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No API required. Kinda slow, but just leave it running overnight if you have a lot. Make sure you run it from https://old.reddit.com/u/me/overview

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[–] flappy@lemm.ee 14 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Protip: don't do this.

Send a GDPR request instead. Use a VPN if necessary.

Keywords:

Article 17 GDPR. Right to erasure ('right to be forgotten')

and, if necessary:

Framstags freundlicher Folterfragebogen

[–] zeluko@kbin.social 15 points 8 months ago

They will tell you you have to delete it yourself.
Comments are technically not necessarily covered under GDPR after they are decoupled from your account and they have no knowledge that it contains other personal data. (which they do not have to check by themselves, that would be ridiculous anyways)

So yes, you do need to run PowerDeleteSuite and then delete your account via account settings (which then triggers deletion in accordance of Article 17)

[–] ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.ml 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Is... Is this a correct translation?

[–] moonleay@feddit.de 8 points 8 months ago

Yes. It missed the joke though. Framstag is the combination of Friday and Saturday in German. It is used for advertising by a store chain named Penny.

[–] leanleft@lemmy.ml 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

u could also try making small valid changes to detail over time until the posted content is unrecognizable and probably** false.
eg: i drive a red car
i drive a blue car
i drive a blue truck
i dont drive anything

those are all possibly true. but alot of them are incorrect.

[–] GBU_28@lemm.ee 6 points 8 months ago

They are selling the data soon. Do you really think they haven't replicated the data to archive storage?

"But muh gdpr right to delete!" Yeah, they don't fucking care

[–] 1984 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It looks like it does but there are many reports of people finding their comments restored. Their username is deleted but the comment/post is back.

[–] online@lemmy.ml 7 points 8 months ago

Read the issues on that git and you'll see that it only works on comments visible from your profile which has a maximum limit. It doesn't get everything, because of that profile limit. There is a python script listed in there but it requires an API key.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 2 points 8 months ago

Why bother? At best it does nothing and at worst it deletes useful information on the internet.

[–] arthur@lemmy.zip 1 points 8 months ago

Worked for me, using old reddit (not sure if that makes any difference). I'm on Firefox.

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 1 points 8 months ago

It didn't for me. Took ages, cleared the list when sorting by new, but left a ton of comments in place that I can see when sorting by top.