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Banned from r/news for deleting a 10 year old comment with redact. Guess the mods there have no backbone. No big deal to me since I'm deleting my account soon but be aware.
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Yea, nothing prevents them from fetching the pre-edited content from their daily or weekly database backups. Media such as images and video might be harder to restore, but "soft" deletes on that type of storage are common, and editing a comment to remove an embed won't delete the embed source.
Yes, it's obviously technically possible to recover from a backup whether or not you edit. If anything, alienth was probably sharing that they can see deleted comments with no extra work required at all.
My point was that "editing before deleting" is done by these shredding tools because of the comment I quoted. It does nothing to prevent third parties from keeping their own copy, and is at worst an inconvenience to Reddit, Inc.
Therefore I'm not sure there's any real value to it for this kind of use.
I’m pretty sure that’s not an option once they receive a GDPR Data removal request.
Yeah it would probably be illegal to use the data for anything in the event of a GDPR removal.
They do technically still have it in their backups, most likely. It should be covered in Reddit's ToS.
https://www.itgovernance.eu/blog/en/the-gdpr-how-the-right-to-be-forgotten-affects-backups-2