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Remember when Spez said it was "It's time we grow up and behave like an adult company"? Apparently, that means paying himself $193 million and single-handedly tanking Reddit's profitability right b... (www.npr.org)

submitted 10 months ago by L4s to c/technology

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[–] [email protected] 91 points 10 months ago (5 children)

When I saw this news yesterday, it made me realize I hadn't used Reddit almost at all since the purge last summer. I ran the PowerDelete tool last night to nuke my profile and then deleted my account this morning. 10 years of posts and comments gone but ill be damned if im going to let those posts stay and train AI to make this douche canoe any more money.

[–] toy_boat_toy_boat 27 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It's sad, really. So much humanity just bought for a sum. So much offered with nothing expected in return. There's always someone who will try to profit from stuff like that, and they're always horrible, horrible people.

[–] Kaliax 4 points 10 months ago

Such a succinct and well written comment, thanks.

[–] Kbobabob 16 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Do you have any way of verifying that it is actually gone? I bet it's just gone from view but the data is still there.

[–] vind 28 points 10 months ago

I'll be filing a GDPR claim per account to get my data and have them permanently delete my content and information

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

Your probably right, but short of going through and editing everything with nonsense (which could just be rolled back anyways) this at least provides me with some copium.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

I ran the tool and it cleared the sort by new list, but the sort by top list was still full of stuff.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I ran the PowerDelete tool last night to nuke my profile

Note that the profile only shows the last 1k comments - I did a GDPR request to get my data (took em a few weeks - they have a month the time to do so) and then used that data to find all my comments and replace a whole bunch of comments with GPT-generated bullshit about spez being a poopyhead.

I won't pick up my shit and move, I'll kill the plants, salt the earth and poison the well. Fuck 'em. It's all for shittificating the site for YEARS.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Using power of EU. EU, I belive in you!

[–] Noodle07 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I'm leaving my comments, I will only train AI on being sarcastic so I'm OK with that

[–] NoSpotOfGround 3 points 10 months ago

Sure you are.

[–] FrostKing 1 points 10 months ago

Sorry, I'm out of the loop—what's the new news? The article linked is from 2023. What happened recently?