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Re:Film studios lose bid to unmask Reddit users who wrote co... by 0l on Tuesday May 02, 2023 @02:26PM (#35792044)
This is not true: these sites rely on Pushshift, which archives ALL comments (at the time of their creation), and Pushshifts data is then compared with Reddits data, allowing it to work out which comments have been deleted.
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Re:Film studios lose bid to unmask Reddit users who wrote co... by someNameIG on Tuesday May 02, 2023 @03:19PM (#35792746)
You can request your account not to be (publicly) archived on Pushshift.
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