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Ok this is interesting... A few months ago, I deleted all my Reddit comments and posts (one by one, using a bit of web automation), yet they all still show up

Ok this is interesting... A few months ago, I deleted all my Reddit comments and posts (one by one, using a bit of web automation), yet they all still show up in this search even thought they don't on Reddit. Proves the point, that once something is on the internet, it's there forever.

doix 6y ago
Yep, pushshift indexes all reddit comments as they come in. Unless you delete your comment fairly quickly, it'll be stored forever.
- stefan_ 6y ago
  So it is a big copyright violation machine? I give reddit a license, not "pushshift".
  - supergirl 6y ago
    do you give google a license?
  - square_usual 6y ago
    The Pushshift maintainer is very responsive to requests to remove personal data. Being an opt-out mechanism, it's not perfect, but it's better than ignoring those requests, plus pushshift has provided incredible value to HCI researches who've been studying reddit.
  - ceejayoz 6y ago
    https://www.redditinc.com/policies/user-agreement-october-15-2020 https://www.redditinc.com/policies/user-agreement-october-15... > When Your Content is created with or submitted to the Services, you grant us a worldwide, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable, and sublicensable license to use, copy, modify, adapt, prepare derivative works of, distribute, store, perform, and display Your Content and any name, username, voice, or likeness provided in connection with Your Content in all media formats and channels now known or later developed anywhere in the world. This license includes the right for us to make Your Content available for syndication, broadcast, distribution, or publication by other companies, organizations, or individuals who partner with Reddit.
- nabakin 6y ago
  Not forever. I've seen it said on reddit that you can email the dev or pm him on reddit and he will remove all of your data. Of course since these archives have been up for download, your data will never truly be gone but it does remove you from the source of these downloads and all future downloads.
rK5Q58 6y ago
I've had Shreddit[1] on a weekly cronjob for the past 3 years and i think most if not all of them still shows up here... [1] https://github.com/x89/Shreddit https://github.com/x89/Shreddit
- nabakin 6y ago
  Be careful. Shreddit does not get rid of all reddit comments, only the ones on your profile. Reddit stores a list of the last 1000 comments and posts you've made to your profile and that list is what Shreddit and 99% of reddit 'deletion' tools use. To truly remove all your comments and posts from reddit, look into reddit-shreddit [0]. Despite the similar name, it is completely different and leverages all your posts and comments from a reddit data request to delete all of your reddit posts and comments. It is infact the only method I have found, except for perhaps a GDPR request, that is truly a complete deletion. However, this only covers the deletion from reddit itself. There have been periodic reddit archivals ever since it was created. Up to 2015 they were done yearly, ever since they have been done monthly. Since they have always been up for download, all of your reddit data will still be out there, however you can remove your data from the main source of these archives called pushshift. I haven't done it personally but I've seen it said on reddit, you can email the dev of pushshift or dm him on reddit and he will remove your information from his archive. [0] https://github.com/nixfu/reddit-shreddit https://github.com/nixfu/reddit-shreddit

doix 6y ago

Yep, pushshift indexes all reddit comments as they come in. Unless you delete your comment fairly quickly, it'll be stored forever.

stefan_ 6y ago
So it is a big copyright violation machine? I give reddit a license, not "pushshift".
- supergirl 6y ago
  do you give google a license?
- square_usual 6y ago
  The Pushshift maintainer is very responsive to requests to remove personal data. Being an opt-out mechanism, it's not perfect, but it's better than ignoring those requests, plus pushshift has provided incredible value to HCI researches who've been studying reddit.
- ceejayoz 6y ago
  https://www.redditinc.com/policies/user-agreement-october-15-2020 https://www.redditinc.com/policies/user-agreement-october-15... > When Your Content is created with or submitted to the Services, you grant us a worldwide, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable, and sublicensable license to use, copy, modify, adapt, prepare derivative works of, distribute, store, perform, and display Your Content and any name, username, voice, or likeness provided in connection with Your Content in all media formats and channels now known or later developed anywhere in the world. This license includes the right for us to make Your Content available for syndication, broadcast, distribution, or publication by other companies, organizations, or individuals who partner with Reddit.
nabakin 6y ago
Not forever. I've seen it said on reddit that you can email the dev or pm him on reddit and he will remove all of your data. Of course since these archives have been up for download, your data will never truly be gone but it does remove you from the source of these downloads and all future downloads.

rK5Q58 6y ago

I've had Shreddit[1] on a weekly cronjob for the past 3 years and i think most if not all of them still shows up here... [1] https://github.com/x89/Shreddit https://github.com/x89/Shreddit

nabakin 6y ago
Be careful. Shreddit does not get rid of all reddit comments, only the ones on your profile. Reddit stores a list of the last 1000 comments and posts you've made to your profile and that list is what Shreddit and 99% of reddit 'deletion' tools use. To truly remove all your comments and posts from reddit, look into reddit-shreddit [0]. Despite the similar name, it is completely different and leverages all your posts and comments from a reddit data request to delete all of your reddit posts and comments. It is infact the only method I have found, except for perhaps a GDPR request, that is truly a complete deletion. However, this only covers the deletion from reddit itself. There have been periodic reddit archivals ever since it was created. Up to 2015 they were done yearly, ever since they have been done monthly. Since they have always been up for download, all of your reddit data will still be out there, however you can remove your data from the main source of these archives called pushshift. I haven't done it personally but I've seen it said on reddit, you can email the dev of pushshift or dm him on reddit and he will remove your information from his archive. [0] https://github.com/nixfu/reddit-shreddit https://github.com/nixfu/reddit-shreddit