L4sBot@lemmy.worldMB to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoReddit removes years of chat and message archives from users' accountsmashable.comexternal-linkmessage-square154fedilinkarrow-up1981arrow-down115file-textcross-posted to: RedditMigration@kbin.socialtechnology@lemmy.worldbeyondcombustion@lemmy.beyondcombustion.netdach@feddit.detechnology@beehaw.orgsnoocalypsereddit@lemmy.worldredditglobalnews@lemmy.zip
arrow-up1966arrow-down1external-linkReddit removes years of chat and message archives from users' accountsmashable.comL4sBot@lemmy.worldMB to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square154fedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: RedditMigration@kbin.socialtechnology@lemmy.worldbeyondcombustion@lemmy.beyondcombustion.netdach@feddit.detechnology@beehaw.orgsnoocalypsereddit@lemmy.worldredditglobalnews@lemmy.zip
minus-squareCloudless ☼@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16·1 year agoText 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.
minus-squarevzq@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8arrow-down2·1 year agoThey want to sell it to AI companies, so they need to make sure they can’t scrape it.
minus-squarekereshnull@infosec.publinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoYou cannot sell active data without explicit consent but what if data that has been “deleted” accidentally gets shared with a 3rd party 🙈
minus-squareJackbyDev@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoHeo the hell do you scrape private chat logs? lol. Get a grip.
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.
They want to sell it to AI companies, so they need to make sure they can’t scrape it.
You cannot sell active data without explicit consent but what if data that has been “deleted” accidentally gets shared with a 3rd party 🙈
Heo the hell do you scrape private chat logs? lol. Get a grip.