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I came across today one of my own comments on Reddit with a search on duckduckgo. It was still intact. The problem is I used shreddit to randomise and delete the entire contents of my account. My account comments and posts all show empty on my account pages on reddit so there should be nothing.

I did a site:reddit.com search using my username and found ~50 comments that Reddit has undeleted but also hide from my own account. I could still edit and delete them. Its curious that they don't appear on my accounts content on Reddit and yet a search engine can find them and they are still served by Reddit. Ex Reddit users who deleted their account contents should be aware this is happening and report it as a GDPR breach to their respective agencies if they are in the EU if they too find this has occurred.

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[-] gigachad@feddit.de 4 points 1 year ago

It's a known issue, only your last 1,000 comments are shown in your user profile so scripts like PowerDeleteSuite won't catch the older ones. Also some of the comments go through, but then you just run the script again. Not much you can do about the older ones though.

[-] fallenWalnut@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

An easy test would be to load that thread in incognito and see if it shows the undeleted version.

[-] BrightCandle@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

They don't seem to have an issue showing it to you logged in, its just it doesn't appear in your content under your account so the only way to find your own comments is with an external search engine. You don't need incognito.

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[-] krasny@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Maybe someone that has this problem can contact The Verge to provide information to write an article, they are doing a good coverage on Reddit's news.

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[-] TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

ive been using Powerdeletesuite for reddit routinely for years. this is nothing new. it's confusing bullshit and inconsistent but not new, at least

[-] Hazdaz@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Funny when the product sees itself up in the store window!

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