I deleted all my post from my reddit account, can they still monetize them? (linux.community)

submitted 8 months ago by vestmoria@linux.community to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Deleting a post is simply marking a piece of text so nobody sees it, but I think the text is still stored in their servers.

Furthermore, a large company like reddit, must backup regularly, meaning there must be several copies of my posts in several SSDs. If the backup once a day… some of my posts are 5 years old.

Companies exist to make money. I suspect they just marked my posts not to be readable by anyone, except staff and they can still monetize them.

Am I wearing a tinfoil hat way too often?

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[-] Winged_Hussar@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I used Power Delete Suite but I had to modify it a bit to put in a delay of about 30-45 seconds for each comment as I was editing the text for each one prior to deleting.

Took quite a while, but in the end my account was gone. I'm sure reddit could pull stuff from it if they really wanted, but no user facing options exist - even "deleted reddit comment viewers".

Edit: I will say that I'm unsure if this still works (or any editing tools) because of the API changes.

[-] KnightontheSun@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

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[-] FrostyTrichs@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

Seems to be working great, thank you!

[-] Winged_Hussar@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

Awesome! Make sure to double check some of the comments that they were all updated/deleted. Without a delay mine has trouble and missed a few

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