I came across today one of my own comments on Reddit with a search on duckduckgo. It was still intact. The problem is I used shreddit to randomise and delete the entire contents of my account. My account comments and posts all show empty on my account pages on reddit so there should be nothing.

I did a site:reddit.com search using my username and found ~50 comments that Reddit has undeleted but also hide from my own account. I could still edit and delete them. Its curious that they don’t appear on my accounts content on Reddit and yet a search engine can find them and they are still served by Reddit. Ex Reddit users who deleted their account contents should be aware this is happening and report it as a GDPR breach to their respective agencies if they are in the EU if they too find this has occurred.

    • FederalBureauOfDank@lemmy.worldEnglish
      21·
      11 months ago

      Is it really a GDPR violation if no article 17 request was sent AND those comments contain no PII? PII is the key for GDPR, your “IP”/contribution to Reddit means nothing

        • FederalBureauOfDank@lemmy.worldEnglish
          52·
          11 months ago

          Yes strong protection will make me cry so hard.

          If my reddit comments are helping troubleshoot something technical and unrelated to me, that still isn’t personal data. Valuable comments will be available on reddit and generating them traffic from Google searches regardless of how much people here scream about GDPR.

  • CaptObvious@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    11 months ago

    Several of us have noticed this since the protests and mass exodus started. It did seem that editing then deleting might protect against Reddit’s restoration of posts and comments.

    Update: Just checked. They’ve restored a lot of my old posts. This may turn into a years-long game of whack-a-mole trying to actually get our material deleted from that site.

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldEnglish
      0·
      11 months ago

      This is exactly why (plus laziness) that I haven’t even bothered. They’re just going to put them back anyway.

      I do have a post pinned in my account directing people to Lemmy though.

      • Serinus@lemmy.mlEnglish
        2·
        11 months ago

        I PMed someone on Twitter asking them to use Mastodon. As soon as I sent the PM, Twitter temporarily locked my account for “suspicious activity”. I had to basically fill out a captcha to get my account back, but it didn’t send the message.

        I rewrote it while being more careful with my phrasing and misspelling “mastedon” the second time.

  • ricecooker@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    11 months ago

    How about instead of deleting, you edit the comment so it’s taken completely out of context. Nonsense words, random poems, list of colors, etc.

  • snor10@lemm.eeEnglish
    2·
    11 months ago

    The EU needs to smack Reddit with those fat GDPR-violation fines.

  • Kittiesmom13@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    11 months ago

    I’m in the US and deleted all my posts & comments months ago. I also deleted my account when the whole ruckus started over there. Just tried this search and low and behold, my old posts came up. Not happy about this.

  • over_clox@lemmy.worldEnglish
    31·
    11 months ago

    OP said they did exactly that using shreddit.

    Edit: Lemmy acting weird, this is supposed to be a comment to user ricecooker.

    Sigh, whatever.

    • Nato Boram@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      11 months ago

      You’re allowed to delete comments on Lemmy :)

      (They’ll still be visible to third-party app users but that’s another topic, it should be fixed eventually)

  • ricecooker@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    11 months ago

    Would it be better to edit posts and change them to nonsense? Random poems, list of dog breeds, song lyrics, random SQL code…