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this post was submitted on 06 Jan 2024
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The short answer is: Yes, they can still monetize what you posted, and there's nothing you can do about it.
(And no, the GDPR doesn't apply, they can just strip away the associated username and IP address)
Use a tool like powerdeletesuite. Edit all posts with something random or condemning. Let them sit a full day so they get saved in the nightly snapshot. Then delete.
Yes they still have the original somewhere buried in the previous backups, but nobody will go to those lengths to restore them. Your text is effectively removed from their site and no longer able to be used to create revenue.
This assumes a lot about how Reddit works internally. They might just store every edit of each comment forever.
Yes they probably do, but they won’t get restored. It is likely a snapshot backup. It would take a ton of effort to restore buried snapshots.
I have some enterprise storage system experience.
Depending on what they do it's not that simple. If you include the entire history of an account you could probably de-anonimize most active users. That being said, de-correlating the comments and posts before feeding them to an AI model is probably enough.