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I deleted all my post from my reddit account, can they still monetize them? (linux.community)

submitted 2 years ago by vestmoria@linux.community to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Deleting a post is simply marking a piece of text so nobody sees it, but I think the text is still stored in their servers.

Furthermore, a large company like reddit, must backup regularly, meaning there must be several copies of my posts in several SSDs. If the backup once a day… some of my posts are 5 years old.

Companies exist to make money. I suspect they just marked my posts not to be readable by anyone, except staff and they can still monetize them.

Am I wearing a tinfoil hat way too often?

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[–] FrostyTrichs@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (6 children)

I've been meaning to ask this elsewhere but I guess I can piggyback off this post-

What tool(s) are available for deleting/removing your post history? I've seen mention that some didn't delete their posts but had a bot or something replace the text in them with some text about leaving for Lemmy, and I'd like to do something like that myself.

[–] kill_dash_nine@lemm.ee 0 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I haven’t kept up with anything reddit wise but I thought those tools utilized the now inaccessible APIs unless they’ve figured out how to do it without them.

[–] crazyCat@sh.itjust.works 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I think the tool I used was doing it via a browser extension, you opened your account up and gave the extension access and it did its thing.

[–] FrostyTrichs@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Do you happen to remember the name?

[–] KnightontheSun@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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