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Reddit Undeleted all my posts and comments

Before I left Reddit, I used a plugin through the api to replace all of my comments with random gibberish and then delete them. Part of this was because (mandatory) fuck spez. But more importantly, it was to protect the anonymity of my account. After years of posting, there is likely enough personal information shared to potentially connect my Reddit habits to my online identity. I wasn’t planning on using Reddit again in the future on that account, but I left it open in order to maintain some security control over the account. I’m not really sure what to do at this point because I still consider it a security vector that’s a bit concerning. There’s no way I can manually edit and delete all of my content with the snail’s-pace reddit UI, and I have no ability to assure that my content will remain unavailable or at least not publicly displayed.

geekwithsoul ,

This just happened to me as well. Deleted all my stuff about a year ago and even happened to check last week and it was still gone. Saw this and went back to check again just now, and it had all been undeleted.

Update: just realized it’s not everything, just everything more than 5 years old

cm0002 ,

If they’re mass restoring stuff, they’re probably chugging through in batches, betcha if you check in a couple weeks there will be more

zoostation ,

My 15k deleted comments across multiple accounts are still gone. But I used my own Python script and it was about 6 months before the drama started and lots of people were doing it.

BlackPenguins ,

Was it random gibberish or the same phrase every time? I’m not sure what Reddit is capable of but if you use a copy pasted message then they could easily know which posts to undelete. However, if you replace your posts with random sentences (say pick from a list of 100) they won’t know which is real through obfuscation.

gedaliyah OP ,
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The tool edits the comments to a random string before deleting, since deleted comments and posts are actually preserved.

half_built_pyramids ,

They aren’t your comments anymore. Pray they don’t change the deal any further.

Orbituary ,
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This is what I used and it worked great.

redact.dev

For the times that I go back on to Reddit, I follow up and delete my comments a few weeks later using this.

originalucifer ,
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im kinda scared to check. i dont want to see my shit undeleted

illi ,

If you are from EU, you might try envoking the GDPR maybe? Though most make it incredibly difficult afaik

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