Don’t know if it is expensive for reddit but the link works at the time of this posting.

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    1 year ago

    Sorry for the stupid question but what exactly does this do? I haven’t logged on reddit since the blackout and would like to totally wipe my account but not sure what’s the best way.

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      1 year ago

      Pretty sure the last line of image is not correct anyway: AFAIK doing this doesn’t wipe your data; it requests Reddit to compile a report on all the data they have on you. It does still waste time of the employees, which spez/Reddit ultimately have to pay for… But doesn’t do fuckall for removing data unfortunately. At least that was the impression I got from reading their page on it and googling.

      Would love if it did… I already deleted all my comments and posts (the hard way… over the course of many bathroom breaks) but I still don’t like them having ip logs and browsing history which I can guarantee you that they keep. And AFAIK they are under no legal obligation to delete that kind of data, especially for users in the US, but I think even for Europe, ip address/email/browsing history/screen name would not be considered as personal identifying information (pii) in most cases and probably no way to force them to get rid of it, unless you’re some kind of 1337 h4x0r dude.

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      1 year ago

      I can help you if you want. I suggest using Power Delete Suite to first overwrite and then delete your history, and then making the suggested data request.

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        1 year ago

        Reddit keeps undeleting that though, even if you’ve been using reddit from an EU ip all the time (which would mean you are protected by GDPR)

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          PDS doesn’t include rate limit controls, so Reddit will start rate limiting you after just a few requests. This results in PDS telling you that it deleted content that it did not delete (partially because Reddit returns 200 error codes while ALSO including a message that your request was rejected).

          I modified the PDS source to delay 2000ms between requests and ran it via ViolentMonkey in Firefox. It took a couple of days to run, but that did the trick.

          TL;DR: Power Delete Suite is currently broken and it’s likely your content was never deleted in the first place.

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            1 year ago

            I know a thing or two about programming, so I’ll try to do the same. However, I managed to do two runs with PDS which worked, and noticed that reddit deleted all my comments because they mentioned lemmy.