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I've always meant to do this, but after hearing about the AI thing I want to get it done. Is there no free solution? I have too much history to clear manually.

EDIT: PowerDeleteSuite did the trick, thanks!

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago
[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Reddit selling user comments/posts to AI companies

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 8 months ago

Power delete suite

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago
[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (3 children)

Wait, if I delete my reddit account, do my comments still exist?

I've forgotten how reddit works since last summer

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Yep. Do you remember seeing comments/posts where the username is listed as [deleted]?

If you haven’t deleted your account yet, you can edit your posts to be blank/spam, then delete your account. If you deleted your account it’s too late to edit your comments.

That being said, if reddit is concerned with keeping old comments to sell for AI training, I’m not sure this will stop them. This will stop other visitors to reddit from reading what you wrote, though.

I didn’t need to do this (I rarely posted) so I have no recommendation for tools to help, sorry.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 8 months ago

Your comments will still exist even if you delete your account. Your username will just show "deleted" but the comment still exists. You need to edit or manually delete the comments if you want them removed.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Yes, unless they've recently changed something. Folks will see something like [deleted] for your username, but the text is still there. And indexable by exploitative AI companies. And indexable by exploitative ad companies.

Worse, you, having deleted your account, no longer control those posts and comments and can no longer affect their fate.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Cant you just send reddit an email and tell yoi want eveything they have about you deleted? Or is that just eu gdpr thing

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I'm not sure if just deleting/GDPR an account is enough to get all of their comments removed.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It's supposed to.

A collection of personal opinions are enough to create a personal profile, and are thus protected by GDPR for EU citizens who can withdraw consent for them to be used.

It is also not actually legal for them to change the usage of your protected data before informing you in a clear and concise language, but that part hasn't been thoroughly litigated yet.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Yep, yet discord doesn't delete messages nor does reddit with comments, they just "anonymise" it, US companies just doesn't care. Those dumbasses

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