How do I delete my Reddit account? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 year ago by Sarin@sh.itjust.works to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Hi, I recently moved to Lemmy and don’t want Reddit to make any more money with my data.

I live in the EU, so I should have the right to demand deletion of all of my data according to the GDPR, right?

Did anyone write them an email or letter to request data deletion? And how did you write it?

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[-] refurbishedrefurbisher@lemmy.sdf.org 12 points 1 year ago

They don't comply with GDPR. Not sure if it still works, but you can use PowerDeleteSuite to edit and then remove your comments. It's a good idea to keep your account open for another week or so to make sure Reddit doesn't restore deleted comments (they did for a few comments on my account), then delete the account in the preferences tab (I used old reddit to do so)

https://github.com/j0be/PowerDeleteSuite

To avoid rate limiting, there is a 5 second delay between editing and deleting each comment, so expect it to take a very long time.

[-] Sarin@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

Thank you, I will definitely try that.

Do you think they would not delete my comments if I wanted them to delete everything according to the GDPR? Because I could make a few test comments after deleting everything else(would be nice proof).

It might be naive of me to think that I can make a difference by reporting it, but I would love to see them get fined like Facebook/Meta recently did.

[-] refurbishedrefurbisher@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

They claim to not have a way to delete your comments.

By all means, please report them to the proper authorities, but only after making a formal request, and after they respond.

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