Reddit undeleting comments and hiding them

BrightCandle@lemmy.world to Reddit@lemmy.world – 475 points –

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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I’m in the US and deleted all my posts & comments months ago. I also deleted my account when the whole ruckus started over there. Just tried this search and low and behold, my old posts came up. Not happy about this.

Should be illegal. Is it not due to GDPR in Europe at least?

It totally is illegal. We just need someone with a good lawyer to push through.

How is it illegal

Read GDPR, Art. 17 GDPR Right to erasure (‘right to be forgotten’)

It's even worse because people deleted the content themselves and it still shows up and is editable. (Not to be confused with cached by search engine)

Agree. Under GDPR this is totally forbidden. Issue a take down request and when that is not being followed up they will have major issues in the EU.

It's not illegal, they don't have to provide this feature to you for you to edit your own comments.

They do have to delete it if you ask them tho.