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https://www.reddit.com/settings/data-request

They must oblige within a certain time frame — even if your account has been suspended and I believe even if you've deleted your account. Curiously, this might be one effective way to protest. Golly I wonder what would happen if many people requested such reports simultaneously. It seems these must be processed manually by admins.

As a bonus, it's nice because all your comments and messages are searchable.

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[-] rikudou@lemmings.world 10 points 1 year ago

Yet again the myth of it somehow hurting Reddit... It doesn't, it's definitely easier than sorting the hot feed computation-resources-wise. My company works with big data and getting yout GDPR data dump is a matter of minutes. And we probably have more data per user than Reddit does.

[-] Destragras@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

Yeah the way the data is structured makes it looks like a straight dump from their databases that no doubt is automated.

The amount of data that they do provide in there is much more than I was expecting, compared to some other platforms I've seen that do the bare minimum by dumping some basic metadata for your account and that's it.

[-] rikudou@lemmings.world 3 points 1 year ago

Under GDPR they have to give you everything they have about you. Sure, they might skip some bits, but if it's too obvious that you're not giving everything, you open up yourself to some pretty big fines.

[-] lennybird@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I'm sure you're right, but curious why it took so long to process my request? If it's automated and easy, why isn't it done immediately?

[-] rikudou@lemmings.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

My guess would be to sway your opinion - requesting your data often happens when you leave the service and very often it's because something on that service pissed you off.

If they take 2 weeks instead of 5 minutes, chances are you are going to calm down, change your mind and stay.

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