This video shows that Reddit refused to delete all comments and posts of its users when they close their account via a CCPA / GDPR request.

This is absolutely insane, and shows that companies OWN you.

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      1 year ago

      Word is that they don’t, deletes are soft-deletes but edits aren’t so reversible.

      In this specific case it looks like it might just be that specific sub being private on the day he deleted, https://kbin.social/m/RedditMigration/t/99466/Reddit-violates-CCPA#entry-comment-406442

      Watching the video i see him deleting from 11 months ago to 12 years ago. But don’t see the specific 3 year old posts on r/javascript. Which would be consistent with not being able to see them due to the sub being private.

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        When it was open source, they didn’t. But it’s closed source now. So who knows. Reddit says they don’t, but they have lied before, so who knows.

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        I was able to delete all my posts/comments without issue (My reddit username is different from this one fyi).

        As you stated, the subreddit could gave been private. He also may have been viewing a stale cache.