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.
Would it be better to edit posts and change them to nonsense? Random poems, list of dog breeds, song lyrics, random SQL code…
I changed all my comments over 5 karma with multiple pages of lorem ipsum placeholder text.
Underrated comment. Beautiful!
Appropriately-rated comment.
I tried to do this with a script but there’s a rate limiter on it for editing, but not for deleting. And I had a fuckload of comments.
Yes. Preferably something the LLM people can’t easily identify as garbage. Make your data less valuable.