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FixedFun @kbin.social

1y ago

I still appear on Google and I edited and deleted all my comments, this is BS!

www.google.com reddit "fixedfun2" - Google Suche

BS, I say!

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People finding out the internet never forgets, and never forgives.
- Based on EU law, reddit has to delete your stuff when you ask. Right to be forgotten and all that .
  
  This is Google remembering. Not reddit.

I think it's in their cache or something. During the blackout they will still show your comment on private sub when googled
Sidenote: anyone have better way to edit all comment? I tried using power delete suite and it only edit some but not all my comment
- Redact.dev

Well google doesn't have realtime results. They obviously still have your account on there, because they crawled it propable ages ago... When you click the link though, reddit tells you that this account doesn't exist, so no BS. Just how such things work
- But I can see the post just with the "[deleted]" username, or is it just me? I edited those to say something else and then delete them, so I wonder if I'm the only one I can see them.
  
  If you deleted your account then they can always restore the content. They won't restore the account but they can restore the posts.
  
  That sounds like you've deleted your account and you missed getting that post when you were deleting--either because it was over the 1000 limit or because it was in a sub that was private when you were trying to delete things.
  I deleted my stuff over a period of several days. Some of those comments are gone entirely (not in the search results), some of them are hits but when you go to the thread, the comment's been deleted, and some of them are hits where there's a line of the comment as part of the google search result but when you go to the thread there's nothing there. So Google's in the process of forgetting things.
  
  I don't really know what you mean

they have not even completed my data request yet

I deleted all of my comments using PDS. I just did a Google search for my username on Reddit and it had one result. I went to the post (I remember the OP) but my comment doesn't appear on the post. So is this a caching issue?
- It’s Google cache, wait a day or two and you will not see it anymore

I'm writing a program and going to wait several months before I overwrite my content - slowly one post per minute. Then after finishing that (over several months), I plan to set the code to slowly delete the posts, one by one.
I spent years writing content for reddit to share with the world. If they won't share with the world, they won't get a copy either.
- I want to do something very similar to this!
  download all my content (still waiting on that one)
  put all my comments on my personal website each with a unique ID
  edit each post on reddit to point to the content on my website, that way I maintain control but the internet doesn't lose information
  do you think your software could do this? :D
  
  Don't know! I have a bit of experience using Auto-It so I'm going to try and program it to tab through the old.reddit page and edit each post then move on to the next post. I assume using the edit button I could copy all text, then write it to a word document in something like an XML format which could then be imported into software.
  But again, this is all based on theory, I haven't done any actual code or testing yet. Just based on previous experiences making simple programs to access websites and do specific things via a browser to mimic human interactions with the site. It's a very slow unreliable and inefficient way of doing things lol

Agreed it is BS
A lot of folks get hit by this, https://kbin.social/m/RedditMigration/t/47320/PSA-If-you-have-more-than-1000-posts-more-than
They think they deleted it all, but stuff got missed.
A lot of folks also seem to be using PDS. Remember that PDS is also affected by this limitation.
- This is one of the reasons I regularly deleted my reddit account. I was on reddit for over a decade, but I always had a relatively new account.
  When I mentioned doing this, I invariably got called paranoid.
  
  Smart move. Wish I had done this - but back then I didn't know how to automatically save a local copy of my content before deleting.
  
  I did this too. The only time I regretted doing it was when I lost my snappening badge
  
  That's what I did on a 6 month basis for 10 years.
  I was keeping my account but deleted all my stuff every 6 months or so.

Unless its something you are desperately trying to find, nothing disappears from the internet.

Is it your comment?

If so it sucks, because you can't do anything about it.
- Sounds like me, I would say "NFT" as a way to point why Reddit sucks

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