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Reddit removes years of chat and message archives from users' accounts (mashable.com)
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[–] cloudless@feddit.uk 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Text takes very little space, so I don't think it is mainly about storage costs.

I think they just want to save the data migration costs.

[–] vzq@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

They want to sell it to AI companies, so they need to make sure they can’t scrape it.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

Heo the hell do you scrape private chat logs? lol. Get a grip.

[–] kereshnull@infosec.pub 1 points 1 year ago

You cannot sell active data without explicit consent but what if data that has been "deleted" accidentally gets shared with a 3rd party 🙈