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Re:Reddit Search: A search engine for Reddit indexable by us... by doix on Tuesday April 20, 2021 @05:56AM (#26872646)
Yep, pushshift indexes all reddit comments as they come in. Unless you delete your comment fairly quickly, it'll be stored forever.
Re:Reddit Search: A search engine for Reddit indexable by us... by stefan_ on Tuesday April 20, 2021 @06:02AM (#26872689)
So it is a big copyright violation machine? I give reddit a license, not "pushshift".
Re:Reddit Search: A search engine for Reddit indexable by us... by ceejayoz on Tuesday April 20, 2021 @07:26AM (#26873188)
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.

Re:Reddit Search: A search engine for Reddit indexable by us... by square_usual on Tuesday April 20, 2021 @06:33AM (#26872867)
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.
Re:Reddit Search: A search engine for Reddit indexable by us... by supergirl on Tuesday April 20, 2021 @06:09AM (#26872734)
do you give google a license?
Re:Reddit Search: A search engine for Reddit indexable by us... by nabakin on Tuesday April 20, 2021 @09:29AM (#26874359)
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.