Because of GDPR, there should be a way to completely wipe your account
Comment on Reddit has reportedly signed over its content to train AI models
ItsAFake@lemmus.org 7 months agoYou really think they don’t have your original comments stored?
MBM@lemmings.world 7 months ago
JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Yeah. At most they’d mark the comments as inactive, hide from the user accessible areas and maybe anonymize the user id. But they definitely have the username table and the data still in the system, 100%, just waiting for the right offer.
EdibleFriend@lemmy.world 7 months ago
It’s literally been proven that they do. A guy here on Lemmy was a very common poster on some tech support subreddit. He used one of those account scrubbers and deleted his account. He went back to look a few weeks later and all his comments were back.
Thorny_Insight@lemm.ee 7 months ago
I didn’t delete my account but I used a script to edit all my messages to say that I have left because of the attack on 3rd party apps and when I check now they all still say that.
XTornado@lemmy.ml 7 months ago
The point is doesn’t matter what is visible, they could be storing all the comments edit history and simply not show it.
EdibleFriend@lemmy.world 7 months ago
And they didn’t bother to restore you because you probably weren’t useful to make it a community look attractive. He was so after he scrubbed his account, possibly with the exact same tool you did, they put everything back.