Reddit

I have already sent a GDPR request to Reddit and they refuse to comply.

I asked them to delete everything they have about me, including my account and they told me that I need to login into reddit and ask it from there which:

1. I don't have to since GDPR says that I can even do it verbally and I don't even have to write to a specific email, I can just let any employee of that company that I want this and they should honor it.
2. They straight up don't even have the option to delete your data there, since I requested for the complete erasure of my data as that is also in my rights.

Reddit literally refuses to comply with GDPR rules and tonight after work I am going to lodge a formal complain about GDPR violations as I do have proof of this in my emails.

Fuck Reddit I hope it crashes and burns.

In another thread, someone mentioned that the scripts that delete comments don't work if the sub is private, so it could be that people are thinking their content was deleted, but the deletion didn't actually happen.

I haven't done it, so I can't validate that.

Holy shit! They restored my comments that I deleted the other day. What a crock of shit. Fuck u/spez.

If this checks out, they may be in disrespect of a bunch of privacy laws including GDPR.

So I overwrite my posts and deleted with power delete suite, then deleted my account, and I’ve gone back and looked for my most recent posts and comments and they are still indeed gone.

I’m wondering if some people ran it while subs are already private and it simply wasn’t able to remove those posts and they didn’t show up until the subs became active again?

Not sure, but it’s not everyone that’s affected apparently.

Rather than delete posts, I propose all rexxitors instead edit all of their posts and comments to say that they are leaving reddit for good to go to the fediverse instead. Such edits should provide links to major Fediverse sites and getting started guides, with advice for other redditors to abandon that place and join us here.

They're really scraping the barrel now.

But the main thing we can do is move quality content here.

Copying my comment from another thread below. I have since realised that Reddit does have to be GDPR compliant so it must be applicable, but does it apply to all content?

Would this actually be a GDPR breach? I was thinking about the right to erasure/to be forgotten earlier in relation to a post I saw about how your posts aren't deleted on other federated instances, if you delete them on your home server. But I figured it wasn't applicable because it's not personal data and I'm thinking the same about this Reddit issue. Can anyone set me straight?

How are they even distinguishing between protest deletions and content that was genuinely deleted for a different reason?

What script are you using to mass edit? Even if they revert it, I would like to try.

This is why I edited all my comments to say that a certain CEO is a greedy little pig boy instead of straight on deleting them.

After reading this, I'm deleting my post and comment history immediately, but not my account. I will check regularly and delete again if reddit tries to bring it back. Might as well make them work for it.

WTF!!! Thx for raising awareness. This is crossing a line.
I guess next step would be not to delete posts but to edit them.

"Nice". I deleted my account after that.. hopefully my articles stay deleted

thankful i used a script to mass-edit my profile, which seems to still be in effect (first and only time i visit a reddit URL post-spezdown, just directly typed my profile link so i don't give the front page any "views" or "engagement" or whatever the corpo hogs are calling it now)

@shindig1457
GDPR is going to have fun with that...

This might be a silly question, because you know, big companies tend to ignore laws, but this cannot be GDPR (or maybe more importantly for this the California equivalent due to jurisdiction) compliant right?

That is exactly why you should always edit your stuff before deleting it. Very few companies ever save more than the last version of your stuff, due to space and performance considerations. That way they can restore whatever they want, it'll simply come out as "x" or whatever you put in there.