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[–] ElysiumXII@beehaw.org 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Deleted my Reddit account today, not gonna let Huffman use my content to make money and his attitude is very concerning tbh

[–] Jimbob0i0@beehaw.org 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Waiting on them to fulfil my GDPR data request.

One I've got all my data (since there was some useful stuff there over the years) I'll follow up with the "right to be forgotten" request as well.

[–] nickb333@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Keep us updated how this goes. Are they even governed by EU law if they are in the US?

[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 10 points 1 year ago

If they want to operate in the EU (for example, selling ad space to European companies to show to European users) then yes, they are.

[–] A2PKXG@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There are some American news sites that don't serve to European users for that reason. Instead, we get a screan that explains that GDPR is too much for them to handle.

It can be circumvented with a VPN, but I haven't bothered so far

[–] nickb333@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

Yes I'm familiar with those - usually local news channels in Ohio I monitor so I do VPN them.

[–] 1993_toyota_camry@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

They'll probably just use it anyway, unfortunately.

Now that we've given them the data, there's not much we can do.

[–] laird_dave@feddit.de 6 points 1 year ago

If you're in the EU have a look at Art 15&17 GDPR. I'm so gonna have fun with them...

[–] knotthatone@lemmy.one 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I tried nuking mine and they restored everything. At least I have the power not to give them anything more.

[–] lovesickoyster@lemmy.one 3 points 1 year ago

me as well - it's all back.

[–] deephurting@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

I keep running Power Delete Suite and the comments keep getting restored. Pretty shifty of them.