I have been increasingly having to re-run my purge scripts across multiple accounts, despite not being on reddit for a few weeks now. The longer i wait between logging in and purging comments, the more appear.

And they do appear quasi-random, as if they page/comments get restored when another user pulls/visits an older page.

How does this even square with privacy regulations anyhow. If a user wants to delete their comments, forcibly restoring them against their will is, at best, unseemly.

  • AdamantiteAdventurer
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    191 year ago

    Yeah, places that have “right to be forgotten” laws should be monitoring and logging proof of examples over a period of time where deleted comments and posts are restored.

    • @[email protected]
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      31 year ago

      Yes. Just had „Nuke Reddit History“ overwrite and delete everything, took a screenshot of my empty account, and then demanded a GDPR takeout of all my data. If anything resurfaces they’ll be getting a very nice GDPR letter of death. :)