I have been increasingly having to re-run my purge scripts across multiple accounts, despite not being on reddit for a few weeks now. The longer i wait between logging in and purging comments, the more appear.

And they do appear quasi-random, as if they page/comments get restored when another user pulls/visits an older page.

How does this even square with privacy regulations anyhow. If a user wants to delete their comments, forcibly restoring them against their will is, at best, unseemly.

  • Freeman@lemmy.pubOP
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    1 year ago

    Yeah. wouldnt be shocked. Interesting part is they used to say they only kept a history of 1 edit. So overwriting your comments then saving and deleting was a sure way to purge your history.

    My scripts do just that with javascript. But still the whole comment is restored. No way thats a bug to me.

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      Yeah, places that have “right to be forgotten” laws should be monitoring and logging proof of examples over a period of time where deleted comments and posts are restored.

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      What I’ve noticed is that subreddits that were private when I initially did it and are restored will then show up. I’ve had to go back each time a subreddit comes back. r/oddlyspecific just came back for example and now all my comments from that subreddit are showing up.