How to Delete Your Reddit Account and All Data Under GDPR/CCPA

Re:How to Delete Your Reddit Account and All Data Under GDPR... by thih9 on Monday June 19, 2023 @02:52PM (#36395097)

This kind of “shadow delete” is an alarming dark pattern. The user’s intent is clear, the company pretends to address it and later reverts the action when the user is likely to not notice.

Their approach to handling deletion in general is unintuitive and extremely user hostile. Also in the context of the response from support.

> I received a response from Reddit pretty quickly after submitting it. The response told me that I must delete all of the posts and comments beforehand.

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Re:How to Delete Your Reddit Account and All Data Under GDPR... by gharper on Wednesday June 21, 2023 @01:54AM (#36414891)

> The response told me that I must delete all of the posts and comments beforehand.

Reddit appears to also be making this as difficult as possible. According to both my user profile and the scripts being used to delete my account history, I've successfully deleted all my posts and comments...

A quick Google search of my username however, turns up hundreds of posts & comments still on Reddit going back several years, but which don't appear anywhere in my user profile.

I'm not sure if this is simply poor design on their part, or if this is a deliberate attempt to frustrate deletion attempts... but I'm not currently inclined to give them the benefit of the doubt given recent statements and actions.

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