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[–] fear@kbin.social 20 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

There are reports of them already restoring deleted content, too. They have zero respect for their users' autonomy.

Edit: Someone started a thread about it here

[–] lamentforicarus@beehaw.org 25 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Just checked my account and all of my posts and comments are back. :[

[–] Rising5315@kbin.social 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

No way. Can anyone else confirm of their old user data is back? This is a huge low by Reddit

[–] pieceofcrazy@feddit.it 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I think this is also, like, illegal? At least I the EU

[–] deephurting@beehaw.org 8 points 2 years ago

Make sure the press hears about this. We're still ranting about spez editing comments years after the fact; not only disobeying a user's wishes, but violating the law?. That's a whole other kettle of fish.

[–] Baketime@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

Just checked my account and it's still deleted

[–] saplyng@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You could try editing all the posts/comments instead - even possibly doing it a few times. I doubt whatever intern they got to start undeleting user data is going to be very thorough and won't look through several edits

[–] lamentforicarus@beehaw.org 1 points 2 years ago

That's a good idea.

[–] insomniac_lemon@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Not sure if it's what happened, but remember that content in private subreddits isn't on your profile and thus cannot be deleted.

When it opens back up, your content will now appear on your profile. (Run it again as-needed)

[–] lamentforicarus@beehaw.org 2 points 2 years ago

Some of the comments are on a sub that I know specifically did not go dark or private during the protest, so I don't think it is solely from that. I'm going to do it again with a different program, and I will continue to do it until someone leaves it alone. Right now the reddit admin are on alert, but eventually they'll stop paying attention.

[–] coin@asimon.org 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

@fear @dope @generalEdo Are they even allowed to do that with the GDPR protecting EU citizens? :think:

[–] RepairUnit3k6@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

GDPR protects personal information like age, name, nationality, face or likness. Sadly it dosent protects content as far as I know. However if I'm mistaken I'm open to be corrected

[–] UnhealthyPersona@beehaw.org 1 points 2 years ago

Lol, it's like Spez is trying to act like Elon Musk at this point...