PowerDeleteSuite still works for nuking your Reddit history
Power Delete Suite for Reddit. Contribute to j0be/PowerDeleteSuite development by creating an account on GitHub.
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
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
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)
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
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.
A python script hooked up to the openai API could be a fun way to play with this. Just edit the comments with random bs somehow marginally related to the original topic but incorrect.
It's a real shame though because those old comments are often lifesavers when you're looking into really niche subjects.
I was thinking about manually editing every comment to replace them with lorem ipsums and similar rubbish text, I wonder if they would mark that as "suspicious activity" and lock me out of my account? I read some people in the past had similar issues with mass deletions or edits.
the last fun way to use reddit
PowerDeleteSuite doesn't work for me.
https://old.reddit.com/u/me/overview takes me to a login page (even though I'm already signed in) and when I sign in there, the same page just comes back again without the credentials I typed in.
Same thing happens in Firefox and Edge.
I swear it worked last year. Is it now broken or am I just really stupid?
That's all it does for me, too.
I have 13 years of comments and posts to delete
Holy shit I wasted 13 years on reddit...
Same. It's 12 years for me.
Anyway, here's to wasting another 13 years in the fediverse! 🍺
update: turns out PowerDeleteSuite and others can only delete your 1000 most recent comments (a limit set by reddit), but I found something that actually works and does a thorough job.
https://github.com/andrewbanchich/shreddit
There are step-by-step instructions on the page.
I'm running the program in PowerShell with the GDPR option, and it's been nicely chugging away for hours now.
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.
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.
I noticed that they reverted the modified comments. tried again. haven't checked the current status.
I wonder if a GDPR delete request is in order?
Worked for me, using old reddit (not sure if that makes any difference). I'm on Firefox.
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.
Why bother? At best it does nothing and at worst it deletes useful information on the internet.
If enough people did it I think it would help stop people from going to reddit for info and make them seek out other websites.
Except people like me sometimes are desperate for a solution. Besides, I suspect they are going to shoot themselves in the foot even more with some bad policy.
I don't really don't understand the dislike of Reddit. If you don't want to use it then don't. Overtime I suspect they will fall into decline
Is anyone concerned that by deleting their reddit comments they might be reducing their chances of being able to someday tongue punch Spez in his sweaty fart-box?
Yes
