This is actually hilarious. They are so incompetent that they can't even be competently bad at their job!
Sidenote: I also love the pettiness of Internet culture sometimes, creating sites to crawl reddit and Twitter but strip out ads. I don't know if these existed before this whole debacle, but I like to imagine they were created out of sheer spite and not privacy concerns or whatever legitimate reason was probably the real motivation.
So, y'all might want to double check your old accounts on Reddit, because they are pulling this shit and restoring deleted accounts, with particularly high karma