Don’t know if it is expensive for reddit but the link works at the time of this posting.
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At least it wastes their time / processing power, so it’s still a win in my book. I still deleted most of my content manually already and plan to continue until the account is fully nuked, THEN quit and close the account permanently.
I am still waiting, about 1 week now, since the request.
Gotta think they are swamped with these things. Good.
Any updates? I just requested mine.
Nothing yet. Now that RIF is dead I’m less likely to check regularly.
I’ve seen this graphic and as much as I would love to do this with every single one of my Reddit accounts if it truly cost them money, it is not plausible that it would cost them all that much money and I have yet to see any evidence of it costing them that much money. Only conjecure about how someone not connected to Reddit thinks it will cost them money. They are a software company, and as a software enginer (Reddit have a lot of those), it would be child’s play for me to automate these requests and since the function exists as a result of GDPR regulations, they almost definitely had a system in place to do it.
But I would love to be corrected with evidence, do that and I will submit the requests myself.
If it’s a lot of people at once yes it works
Sorry for the stupid question but what exactly does this do? I haven’t logged on reddit since the blackout and would like to totally wipe my account but not sure what’s the best way.
I can help you if you want. I suggest using Power Delete Suite to first overwrite and then delete your history, and then making the suggested data request.
Reddit keeps undeleting that though, even if you’ve been using reddit from an EU ip all the time (which would mean you are protected by GDPR)
PDS doesn’t include rate limit controls, so Reddit will start rate limiting you after just a few requests. This results in PDS telling you that it deleted content that it did not delete (partially because Reddit returns 200 error codes while ALSO including a message that your request was rejected).
I modified the PDS source to delay 2000ms between requests and ran it via ViolentMonkey in Firefox. It took a couple of days to run, but that did the trick.
TL;DR: Power Delete Suite is currently broken and it’s likely your content was never deleted in the first place.
I know a thing or two about programming, so I’ll try to do the same. However, I managed to do two runs with PDS which worked, and noticed that reddit deleted all my comments because they mentioned lemmy.
I think they took down the data request page because it was being over run. I submitted a help ticket for a data request. We’ll see if I ever get a response or if they’ll try to shirk the legal burden.
If they did take that down then they are definitely violating GDPR, as well as California’s privacy rights. Really isn’t a great look for them, especially financially since those fines can really hurt.
Fines, fines, fines
