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Re:Reddit's Sale of User Data for AI Training Draws FTC Inve... by nickthegreek on Saturday March 16, 2024 @10:25AM (#39726222)
There are scripts to delete all your Reddit posts.
Re:Reddit's Sale of User Data for AI Training Draws FTC Inve... by wilkystyle on Saturday March 16, 2024 @10:37AM (#39726327)
Which is great, assuming you trust that a "delete" actually results in the data being removed from Reddit's possession...
Re:Reddit's Sale of User Data for AI Training Draws FTC Inve... by johnnyanmac on Thursday March 21, 2024 @02:20AM (#39775378)
There is right to be forgotten for EU, And probably state by state laws in the US. but it might be too little too late.
Re:Reddit's Sale of User Data for AI Training Draws FTC Inve... by ProllyInfamous on Saturday March 16, 2024 @01:00PM (#39727514)
After I did this, they just restored all my previous posts!
Re:Reddit's Sale of User Data for AI Training Draws FTC Inve... by persolb on Sunday March 17, 2024 @03:08PM (#39737076)
I thought this too at the time. I ran the scripts, check my profile to make sure they were gone, then deleted my account. Went back the next day an a lot of my posts were back. And I couldn’t delete them anymore since I killed the account.

But I just checked, and they are gone. I can search google for my old username, and just references to my u/ by others is seen.

You might want to check again; I think there was some cache or mirroring that the deletes took a long time to propagate through.

Re:Reddit's Sale of User Data for AI Training Draws FTC Inve... by happytiger on Sunday March 17, 2024 @03:22AM (#39732557)
Yea done it twice and both times my account magically was restored