I do not live in California or the EU. What can I do?
Why would they need your permission? They own the content you posted to their website.
I’d say just ignore it and move on. It’s over. Focus on what what matters.
I don’t think that would hold up in court.
From what i remember, the Reddit TOS says that your content is your content.
And rightfully so, or else they’d be responsible for everything that everyone posts as if they posted it themselves.
You only give them the license to publish your posts, but if a user edits or deletes their content, i don’t think they’d have a legal right to undelete and post and repiblishing it without you agreeing to it (again).
Are you taking them to court?
This is the idea of class action lawsuits, a bunch of people who normally can be kicked around by giant corporations, coming together and taking them to court because the corporation abused everyone in the same way.
So the answer here is a strong “maybe”.
If they want to adhere to EU laws I think they might have to, might still fuck over people from other places though.
The content is fine, but anything associated with them that can be deemed as identifiable needs to go if OP requests the right to be forgotten. Most services will just “censor” the username by replacing it with “deleted” or something. They don’t have to get rid of everything else.
What if a comment itself includes some kind of personal data such as a link that explicitly ties the comment to a person?
Don’t post shit that can be linked to you easily.
People have some weird expectation from a shiti online business. Take of your shit, you can’t rely on the counterparties to protect you.
Originally I didn’t mind tying the comment to my identity, but once I decide to delete my account, I want all such ties gone. Case in point: links to open-source projects with my name in them.
“You shouldn’t have posted it in the first place” is just victim blaming.
Ehh you ain’t wrong but there is not recourse once you are in victim position online. We all made this mistake. Now it is play area for feds, bots and foreign agents. So just got to take care of your privacy and security on the front end.
They will not restore EU comments without having to read those. It would violate GDPR and even a mistake or two will hurt their bottom line so so bad
Yup - I pretty much said this was one of the things that could’ve happened to people who were adamant about deleting their comments.
To OP: thinking since there’s no GDPR compliance for the US, I wouldn’t be surprised Reddit was able to go “uhhhh” and do this anyways. If you were a citizen in the EU, then something could probably be done, but otherwise I wouldn’t be super optimisitic.
As gross as this is, I just don’t think about Reddit anymore.
Nothing. Too many users deleted their posts and reddit decided to find a way to undo that. Your comments are worth too much to the AI bot farmers to ignore.
That doesn’t really make sense. They don’t need to visually restore the comments to sell them to AI bot farmers.
They aren’t going to be able to sell them to AI farms. That ship has sailed. All the valuable content was scraped before there was a cost imposed. Spez is high on his own farts if he thinks anyone is gonna pay their stupid API fees for that.
What are you talking about? Eleventy billion dollars per API call is a completely reasonable price! How else is Spez supposed to become a billionaire??? Those greedy API users are stealing moniez from poor, poor, spez.
I think there is a script out there that replaces all your comments with random gibberish sentences. Just cron it to run every week until all the rollbacks are gone.
it’s just cached content from the many servers, they got overwhelmed by the too many delete requests, run again the powerdeletesuite. Also, if while you used powerdeletesuite a subreddit was private, it wouldn’t be able to detect and delete that post or comment
Also, if you were a frequent poster, your profile doesn’t actually have everything you’ve ever posted. So if you used RES to mass delete, it would have missed stuff.
Login, run a tool to mass edit them, and then run a tool to delete them. Reddit used to only save the previous state and if it is still like that it will render them useless.
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Probably cached in that case. There’s almost certainly multiple caches between Reddit and a web browser, and the only time the system feels the need to build a page and not use the cache will be when you’re logged in.
The issue should ultimately correct itself as these pages do become stale and get deleted.
Edit your content and make it gibberish
Do you have to prove to them that you don’t live in the EU or in California for them to comply with the law?
I mean if they don’t require an address I would just go with the process for them to comply as if you did live in an area with data privacy laws.Hmm… Now I want someone from the US to send a GDPR request to see how much time they will actually spend determining location.
I sent one to get my history. Took them like a month to send it. I’m in the midwestern US and they never asked me or said anything about it. I imagine it’s different for a more exciting gdpr request (I assume there are other requests).
They never asked me for confirmation, but then again after 12 years my account was probably flagged with correct address anyway.
What can I do?
Move on with your life already, for one.
None of that matters.Unless you delete your account, deleted and removed comments are still visible on your profile. This has been the case since I joined Reddit.
Just start going through your old top comments and replace it with a bunch of racist or very obsene shit. Its already a top comment and its old so likely nobody will see
Doesn’t prevent them from rolling the comments back to the pre vandalized state and only really serves to attack innocent unrelated third parties with whatever psychic damage you decided to put out into the world.
If they still have the database the way they originally designed it, they only keep the prior version. That’s why people kept saying to over-write your old comment and then delete it.
Mass edit all your comments, wait a week, then delete them again.
Did you delete the account?
Not really related to your post, just me being nosey: When I go to your account page, your most recent comment was “[ Removed by Reddit ]”. What had you posted?
Hahaha, that’s probably the only post he wanted to stay up. Reddit chose otherwise.
