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I came across today one of my own comments on Reddit with a search on duckduckgo. It was still intact. The problem is I used shreddit to randomise and delete the entire contents of my account. My account comments and posts all show empty on my account pages on reddit so there should be nothing.

I did a site:reddit.com search using my username and found ~50 comments that Reddit has undeleted but also hide from my own account. I could still edit and delete them. Its curious that they don't appear on my accounts content on Reddit and yet a search engine can find them and they are still served by Reddit. Ex Reddit users who deleted their account contents should be aware this is happening and report it as a GDPR breach to their respective agencies if they are in the EU if they too find this has occurred.

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[–] Kittiesmom13 60 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I’m in the US and deleted all my posts & comments months ago. I also deleted my account when the whole ruckus started over there. Just tried this search and low and behold, my old posts came up. Not happy about this.

[–] wazoobonkerbrain 26 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] DrQuint 10 points 1 year ago

*low and belowed

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The EU needs to smack Reddit with those fat GDPR-violation fines.

[–] TrickDacy 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is there a way OP can report reddit for this?

[–] BrightCandle 9 points 1 year ago

I have done but from past experience they don't do their job at all.

[–] kosanovskiy 21 points 1 year ago

They literally rolled back subreddit comments posts and all by weeks and years. so doesnt surprise me. We were their "item sold" and they aint giving that up. Sadly seems like the protests didnt do much. Some of us left but that about it.

[–] Kungolicious 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They’re doing It to mine too.

Cries in American

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[–] foggy 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do you see them from a throwaway account?

[–] overzeetop 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes, you can. Or, at least I can see some of my (deleted, not visible in my profile) main’s comments from my alt account.

[–] foggy 31 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Something tells me that isn't GDPR compliant.

[–] overzeetop 22 points 1 year ago

If I were European, I’d be very angry right now. Actually, I’m angry anyway…but there’s less that I can do as an American.

Though I do have an avenue as a Virginian, its not one where I control the enforcement. I would have to get my corporate bootlicking Attorney General to do something about it, and that will never happen.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I thought some of my old posts were restored but it turned out that those subreddits were still dark when I ran the delete script and had since reopened. Don't know if this is the same situation as you but maybe check if that is the case?

[–] BrightCandle 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Do the comments show up in your account profile under your comments?

Many of these were deleted long before the protests actually and some not in subs which went private. There is no obvious reason why these particular comments are detached from my accounts comments and yet still owned by me and not accessible from the reddit account page.

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[–] BuckRowdy 10 points 1 year ago

This is more a function of how Reddit’s databases and listings work. Automated tools can’t find all of your content because of the limitations on listings. It’s really funny though that people are ascribing abilities to a company with a very low competency level.

[–] over_clox 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

OP said they did exactly that using shreddit.

Edit: Lemmy acting weird, this is supposed to be a comment to user ricecooker.

Sigh, whatever.

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[–] june 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

same, i used Power Delete Suite and confirmed i deleted everything, but searching my old username pulls up a lot of posts and comments. all the posts still seem to be deleted but i'm seeing comments where the username is deleted but the comment is back.

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[–] xts 7 points 1 year ago

I replaced all of mine with “fuck spez” and then deleted my account but not posts, so they’re still there. I went back and checked lol

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

An easy test would be to load that thread in incognito and see if it shows the undeleted version.

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[–] ricecooker 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Would it be better to edit posts and change them to nonsense? Random poems, list of dog breeds, song lyrics, random SQL code...

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I changed all my comments over 5 karma with multiple pages of lorem ipsum placeholder text.

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