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Reddit violates CCPA (www.youtube.com)
submitted 1 year ago by fbievan@fedia.io to c/RedditMigration@kbin.social
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This video shows that Reddit refused to delete all comments and posts of its users when they close their account via a CCPA / GDPR request.

This is absolutely insane, and shows that companies OWN you.

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[–] abff08f4813c@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Word is that they don't, deletes are soft-deletes but edits aren't so reversible.

In this specific case it looks like it might just be that specific sub being private on the day he deleted, https://kbin.social/m/RedditMigration/t/99466/Reddit-violates-CCPA#entry-comment-406442

Watching the video i see him deleting from 11 months ago to 12 years ago. But don't see the specific 3 year old posts on r/javascript. Which would be consistent with not being able to see them due to the sub being private.

[–] aeternum@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

When it was open source, they didn't. But it's closed source now. So who knows. Reddit says they don't, but they have lied before, so who knows.

[–] eek2121@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

I was able to delete all my posts/comments without issue (My reddit username is different from this one fyi).

As you stated, the subreddit could gave been private. He also may have been viewing a stale cache.