Creeping as a Service

Re:Creeping as a Service by peruvian on Tuesday February 09, 2021 @11:57PM (#26085873)

I run a script called "shreddit" I found on GitHub that edits and then deletes your comments. It's configured via a YAML file and you can whitelist or filter stuff that you want deleted. I do this every few months. It's probably paranoid and maybe not even useful, but I grew up with imageboards that were fully anonymous and auto delete - for me it should all be ephemeral.

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Re:Creeping as a Service by searchableguy on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @12:20AM (#26085948)

There are few sites which keep track of your delete history as well as edit history so you are not immune to being archived and watched by someone else.

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Re:Creeping as a Service by anigbrowl on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @02:24AM (#26086454)

I grew up with imageboards that were fully anonymous and auto delete

You would be horrified at how easy it to recover supposedly-deleted content from most imageboards.

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Re:Creeping as a Service by peruvian on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @08:03AM (#26088528)

I'm aware of 4chan archives - I use them all the time, but at least stuff under "anonymous".

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Re:Creeping as a Service by anigbrowl on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @02:47PM (#26093757)

Oh, I meant that most imageboard software is so ropey I can recover deleted stuff without any external archive or prior monitoring. Finding people's identity is of course a different and harder problem.

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Re:Creeping as a Service by sizzle on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @03:14AM (#26086695)

Do they have this for Facebook? If like to obfuscate my data before deleting my profile

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