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. Posts and comment...

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.

  • ThesePaycheckAvenging
    3•1 year ago

    How do you know they don’t keep post revisions too? It’s trivial to implement and probably not much more data.

      • ThesePaycheckAvenging
        3•1 year ago

        That’s my point. I doubt altering comments would have any advantage over deleting them. You just hide what you wrote from other peasants but not from Reddit.

        • abff08f4813c
          1•1 year ago

          That’s the word on the street from former devs who used to work there. It’s actually a sign of how poor in quality their system is that they don’t have a good way to reverse edits, if still true.