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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[-] kill_dash_nine@lemm.ee 3 points 8 months ago

I haven’t kept up with anything reddit wise but I thought those tools utilized the now inaccessible APIs unless they’ve figured out how to do it without them.

[-] crazyCat@sh.itjust.works 6 points 8 months ago

I think the tool I used was doing it via a browser extension, you opened your account up and gave the extension access and it did its thing.

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

Do you happen to remember the name?

[-] Hugohase@kbin.social 4 points 8 months ago

Reddit nuker, this one is for Chrome but there are others.

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