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They store all the photos internally. This was confirmed to me by several snapchat employees while interviewing.
by gjolund 10y ago
They store all the photos internally. This was confirmed to me by several snapchat employees while interviewing.
- HappyTypist 10y agoDo you mean indefinitely? Are they not deleted after a certain period of time?
- azinman2 10y agoEffectively they are deleted just not how you might imagine -- I can't reveal more as I'm not supposed to know this ;)
- askafriend 10y agoThey probably just batch delete them from time to time but until then do a soft delete by setting "status 0" in the DB. I imagine that's what they do.
- feelix 10y ago>not how you might imagine Then I imagine they're "deleted" off of their servers, but not before being copied to another database that they use internally which isn't attached to the original servers directly.
- argonaut 10y agoAnd nobody cares? Sexting is an extremely minor use of Snapchat nowadays, and everyone knows you can just screenshot.
- nicd 10y agoI think you either misinterpreted the employees's comments, or they were mistaken. Our deletion policies are clearly outlined in our privacy policy (Snapchat.com/privacy). "...we automatically delete the content of your Snaps (the photo and video messages that you send your friends) from our servers after we detect that a Snap has been opened or has expired." Note that the deletion model is different for non-Snap media: "Outside of Snaps, the rest of our services may use content for longer periods of time, which means those services may follow different deletion protocols. So, for example, we retain your Story content a bit longer than Snaps so that your friends have more time to view your Story." Disclaimer: I'm an employee of Snapchat.