Reddit undeleting comments and hiding them
Reddit undeleting comments and hiding them
I came across today one of my own comments on Reddit with a search on duckduckgo. It was still intact. The problem is I used shreddit to randomise and delete the entire contents of my account. My account comments and posts all show empty on my account pages on reddit so there should be nothing.
I did a site:reddit.com search using my username and found ~50 comments that Reddit has undeleted but also hide from my own account. I could still edit and delete them. Its curious that they don't appear on my accounts content on Reddit and yet a search engine can find them and they are still served by Reddit. Ex Reddit users who deleted their account contents should be aware this is happening and report it as a GDPR breach to their respective agencies if they are in the EU if they too find this has occurred.
Several of us have noticed this since the protests and mass exodus started. It did seem that editing then deleting might protect against Reddit's restoration of posts and comments.
Update: Just checked. They've restored a lot of my old posts. This may turn into a years-long game of whack-a-mole trying to actually get our material deleted from that site.
Search engines do not scrape the entire internet every single time someone searches. They do routine scrapes of web content and create a cache of what was there, and search that cache. This is why updates to websites do not always reflect on searches.
You're contents are findable on Google because the last time they bothered to scrape that particular Reddit post was when your comment was intact, and they have not had a need to scrape it again since then.
Reddit doesn't allow you to delete comments in communities you can't access, which means they can come back when the community is unprivated. This is completely against the GDPR, since they provide no other way for you to delete your comments. And if you are banned, you won't even be able to access your comment history to delete them.
The reason nothing happens is because no one is going to unite under a class action lawsuit to make it happen, and when all is said and done EU politicians don't really listen to these complaints. Try getting in contact with Margrethe Vestager, but don't expect a reply, even though they had no problem doing an interview and Q&A with Reddit Talk under pluralism activists like Akaash Maharaj who let themselves get compromised by reddit's NFT confidence scam. At the end of the day, they'll still maintain their Twitter and Reddit accounts while only paying lip service to the fediverse and ignoring GDPR violations they could themselves claim if they were so interested.
They literally rolled back subreddit comments posts and all by weeks and years. so doesnt surprise me. We were their "item sold" and they aint giving that up. Sadly seems like the protests didnt do much. Some of us left but that about it.
This is more a function of how Reddit’s databases and listings work. Automated tools can’t find all of your content because of the limitations on listings. It’s really funny though that people are ascribing abilities to a company with a very low competency level.
I replaced all of mine with “fuck spez” and then deleted my account but not posts, so they’re still there. I went back and checked lol
It's a known issue, only your last 1,000 comments are shown in your user profile so scripts like PowerDeleteSuite won't catch the older ones. Also some of the comments go through, but then you just run the script again. Not much you can do about the older ones though.
Shows as deleted to me: https://www.reddit.com/r/ValveIndex/comments/145277f/valve_index_and_linux/
I also deleted using shreddit...
ive been using Powerdeletesuite for reddit routinely for years. this is nothing new. it's confusing bullshit and inconsistent but not new, at least
Funny when the product sees itself up in the store window!
Fuck spez or periods in mine..
OP said they did exactly that using shreddit.
Are they amp caches?
Hope these posts will age and the dearth of new content will bite.
Instead of deleting, you gotta put links to cheese pizza on all your comments to throw them off. Per chance