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It was one of those few 3rd party Apps that still worked. Apparently dev was in talks with Reddit in obtaining Paid-API-Access, but now they cut off his API-Access mid talks without informing him

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[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Which is why people should scrub their comments. A lot of people are holding on to "The good times." with their posts and comments. It doesn't matter if reddit can technically undo the work, I'm still going to check and make sure it stays gone. Without that content, reddit is nothing.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

To be honest, I respect that position, but I don't hold enough contempt against them to do that, and on the other hand I do value Reddit as an archive of online knowledge and debate. I can just leave it if I don't want it in my life anymore. I would like any comments I made on specific topics I'm knowledgeable about to be accessible and used as reference in the future.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

You can request your data in a simple form submission and the ndownload it, all in .csv and other text formats. The request takes about a week.

Afterwards, use Violentmonkey or another script manager to overwrite and delete all your comments.

I've already done it on an account that was over a decade old, no regrets.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

But that's not the point. I'm not saying I'm super important, but I believe I have helped several people with technical or academic questions on Reddit before, and anyone looking that up could access my comments and they might help other people in the future.

I don't hate Reddit as a corporation enough to erase what might be useful to someone else in the future, and they can profit off of it if they want, since I didn't make those comments with my profit in mind anyway.

I understand wanting to erase your data from Reddit, and I realize it's also a responsible decision, but I personally don't like the idea of wiping clean one of the greatest hubs of information in the entire internet, even if I disagree with their corporate practices.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I requested my data. Moore than a week ago. Nothing happened.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It took me two/three weeks to get my data.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

I’m sure there are places like the internet archive who have copies, your stuff isn’t gone if you delete it.

Reddit is like the ex who cheated on you, that person isn’t the person you knew. Now you can leave behind your stuff at their place, but why would you? You are rewarding them by gifting your stuff, making them more respectable and credible, than you know they really are.

People say move on. Move on, and take your stuff with you.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Which tool did you use to delete your comments? I used Power Delete Suite but was only able to delete 1700 out of the 4000 total comments I wrote with my account.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I used reddit-shreddit . Only ones it won't get is from subs that have been disabled.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I appreciate the answer.

Unfortunately it it's down because of the Reddit API changes. I hope it's coming back.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Use a script manager like Greasemonkey or Violent Monkey, and then load a purpose built script like the one I linked to in my previous comment.

It doesn't rely on the API, it's all done local in your browser.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

How long before they claim that’s against some of the ToS and restore the comments I wonder?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Good luck with GDPR.