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Reddit's privacy policy here seems to be pretty clear [0] > Deleting Your Account > You may delete your account information at any time from the user preferen
by hajile 3y ago
Reddit's privacy policy here seems to be pretty clear [0]
> Deleting Your Account
> You may delete your account information at any time from the user preferences page. You can also submit a request to delete the personal information Reddit maintains about you by following the process described below this table. When you delete your account, your profile is no longer visible to other users and disassociated from content you posted under that account. Please note, however, that the posts, comments, and messages you submitted prior to deleting your account will still be visible to others unless you first delete the specific content. After you submit a request to delete your account, it may take up to 90 days for our purge script to complete deletion. We may also retain certain information about you as required by law or for legitimate business purposes.
If you say you are deleting information and they don't do it, they are violating their privacy agreement.
Of course, that is in clear conflict with their TOS. [1]
> 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. You also agree that we may remove metadata associated with Your Content, and you irrevocably waive any claims and assertions of moral rights or attribution with respect to Your Content.
[0] https://www.reddit.com/policies/privacy-policy https://www.reddit.com/policies/privacy-policy
[1] https://www.redditinc.com/policies/user-agreement-september-12-2021 https://www.redditinc.com/policies/user-agreement-september-...
- deleted 3y ago[deleted]
- ncallaway 3y agoThis is slightly different than account deletions. They’re also restoring individually deleted comments. I, for example, deleted every comment I ever posted on Reddit, but left my account itself in place. As of this morning, many of my comments appear to have been restored.
- katbyte 3y agohow did you see/find the comments?
- ncallaway 3y agoI checked my profile by visiting old.reddit.com/user/[username]/comments. Then I used shreddit to edit/delete my comments, and kept viewing that page to confirm comments were being removed. I also picked a handful of comments and confirmed they appeared as “deleted/removed” in the threads in which they appeared. When shreddit was done, I checked my profile comments list to confirm it was empty. I double checked 1 and 12 hours later in case there was some cacheing.
- keybpo 3y agoBut people here are saying not all appear on the profile pages. I've checked mine and indeed there are a handful of undeleted stuff. My last purge was before the blackout and I'm sure it was completely clean as I had to do a couple more passes to catch all the sumbission/comments that for some reason weren't wiped (edited & deleted) on the first pass. I also use old.reddit but I believe on the new.reddit you can limit a search to only a defined user comment. Maybe with some wildcards or regex one can get to them? Otherwise you'd need to know of a submission or a direct link to your comment.
- jcranmer 3y agoNote this line that you quoted: "Please note, however, that the posts, comments, and messages you submitted prior to deleting your account will still be visible to others unless you first delete the specific content." The privacy policy is explicitly saying that deleting your account does not delete your comments.
- bjord 3y agoThis has always been the case. That's why you'll sometimes see posts from [deleted].
- spacebanana7 3y agoThis makes sense for a site where all content is publicly available. Even if reddit were to cascade delete every comment and post a user had created, the data would be trivially available through web archives and public data dumps. Changing the username to indicate the deletion of an account is helpful to show that a user cannot be interacted with any more, but no deletion process could truly remove content a user had created from the internet.
- hajile 3y ago> unless you first delete the specific content. That specifically states that content you deleted will NOT be visible.
- deleted 3y ago[deleted]