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I deleted all my post from my reddit account, can they still monetize them? (linux.community)

submitted 10 months ago by vestmoria@linux.community to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Deleting a post is simply marking a piece of text so nobody sees it, but I think the text is still stored in their servers.

Furthermore, a large company like reddit, must backup regularly, meaning there must be several copies of my posts in several SSDs. If the backup once a day… some of my posts are 5 years old.

Companies exist to make money. I suspect they just marked my posts not to be readable by anyone, except staff and they can still monetize them.

Am I wearing a tinfoil hat way too often?

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[–] kill_dash_nine@lemm.ee 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I haven’t kept up with anything reddit wise but I thought those tools utilized the now inaccessible APIs unless they’ve figured out how to do it without them.

[–] crazyCat@sh.itjust.works 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I think the tool I used was doing it via a browser extension, you opened your account up and gave the extension access and it did its thing.

[–] FrostyTrichs@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Do you happen to remember the name?

[–] Hugohase@kbin.social 4 points 10 months ago

Reddit nuker, this one is for Chrome but there are others.

[–] KnightontheSun@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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[–] FrostyTrichs@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

My understanding is that the moderator workaround is still working for unfettered access to the API. I was hoping there was something I could just set to do the purging for me on an idle computer.