https://www.reddit.com/settings/data-request
Having worked at a company that had a massive influx of GDPR requests we weren’t prepared for, this one could actually cause them some trouble if Reddit don’t have that process properly automated.
Makes me wish I wasn’t so quick to delete my account.
You can still do it. Email them! They’ll insist you use their form but keep pushing.
Oh ya? Ok I’ll try thanks!
I was a redditor for 15 fucking years before they suspended all of my accounts after a mod permabanned me from /politics and I accidentally posted from another account weeks later.
I posted A LOT over those years, from a ton of various accounts. (One of my biggest fears was getting doxxed so I had a bunch of burners and accounts for specific niche interests and such.)
Just requested full data history for all ~10 of my accounts. Fuck reddit.
This is exactly what I did one week ago when I decided to leave Reddit. They still haven’t gotten back to me
Yeah I did this not to just mess with them. I did it cause I’m leaving and I want my data.
This is the same for me! “A message will be sent to your reddit inbox” complete silence. Though the submission message said it could take 30 days or something.
The GDPR states, that request must be completed within a month. In case you’re from Europe, you could report reddit to your local authorities if they don’t respond within that time frame. A single report won’t probably cause a reaction. But several reports from several individuals on the other hand…
Oh I wasn’t aware of this. Very tempting. Now I lowkey wish they miss the deadline on one of the six accounts I requested the data for, so I can do some European style trolling.
Done!
I’ve done this, but how much time is needed to automate it? If it’s 1-2 week they can just automate and then process all the past and future requests in buk
Still means that they have a problem to resolve which is a w
That’s genius! I just did it myself.
I did my part
Posting pictures of Jon Oliver does nothing. A German reddit mod told me, that the admins themselves suggested that the German mods should do this kind of protest instead of keeping the sub in NSFW mode 🤡. The NSFW action + blackout was the only thing that actually hurt them.
Exactly. Especially a subreddit whose entire purpose is posting pictures, why would reddit care if all those pictures are of a single celebrity.
Is there even anything that can be done at this point?
overwriting all your posts multiple times before deleting them and walking away so reddit can die seems like a pretty good option right now. I mean we’re already talking about this on lemmy instead of reddit so why not? Corporations need to learn the lessons “don’t crap where you eat” and "at war with
the productusers = your business is done, so respectthe productusers "
Making popular subreddits NSFW clearly hurts them, because Reddit has been forcing them to switch it off. They’ve also been forcing subreddits to reopen if they’ve been restricted. So those two options aren’t really very viable for every sub.
I suspect this one hurts them too because this post is not visible any more unless you go directly to it or via the pics subreddit - despite it being newer and having more votes than other posts in there that are on the homepage and in popular.
If even a quarter of the people that upvoted this post clicked through to the request form they’re gonna have tens of thousands of these requests to deal with.
Well, switching to NSFW not only limits their revenue to to their self-declared restriction on advertising in those subs, but - and I think this is more important - those subs go dark for the purpose of reddit’s front page. They made the change a couple years ago to exclude all nsfw subs from r/all. There was no need to; r/best was already r/all without the NSFW subs. Any sub that is excluded from r/all is invisible to the eyeballs which pay the bills because that’s the default home page.
Yeah I mean it’s a great idea, but the admins are literally removing moderators from subs that turn themselves nsfw - eg interestingasfuck is still unmoderated and locked.
TBH I was originally surprised it didn’t happen more (booting mods ). Realistically, though, getting a 24/7/365 team in place to do modding costs money so I’m sure they’re trying to pick and choose where/when to switch from volunteer to paid help.
I mean clearly the best choice for the mods is to comply with removing the nsfw tag but tell their communities that they are not going to be moderating nsfw posts, so please post maximum porn.
Tell Reddit with that action that they can make all the rules they want but it’s not going to get the mods to actually follow them.
Problem is they’ll just remove the mods then. The rules around policing nsfw content are pretty well established, mods that don’t do it get quickly removed.
Just did it, fuck 'em.
I did it on all my alts lol.
I would be really surprised if it isn’t automated. I would think they just delay as long as possible to provide the info back.
Not that easy, it’s not a simple SQL query: https://gdpr.eu/checklist/
If they give you some data under that framework, then it implicitly means that legally they acknowledge that they have checked all of those boxes. So before they give you the data there are probably lots of “are we incriminating ourselves by giving this guy this piece of data?” questions that they’re asking themselves.
it’s not a simple SQL query
shh… some developers in my team would take that as a challenge and cook up a 3000 lines long stored procedure
Quite a longer process I think. In the end the only nice thing I got from this whole mess is to discover lemmy. I also suggest everyone to check Mastodon as Twitter alternative. Fk monopolies ✊️
Lemmy is so nice, I almost didn’t feel the switch between platforms it’s pretty much the same.
Well, i’m still getting the hang of it, but so far is quite good. Btw I suggest to any Android user the app Jerboa, way better of the alternative I’ve find in the store 👌
It’s nice not feeling like there’s an algorithm looming over me. I’d browse a sub more than usual one or two times, Reddit blows up my feed with that sub. Sometimes I wouldn’t see anything from some other subs unless I made a point to go visit them.
Quite a longer process I think. In the end the only nice thing I got from this whole mess is to discover lemmy. I also suggest everyone to check Mastodon as Twitter alternative. Fk monopolies ✊️
You could consider making a data request first and after they respond, make a deletion request when you’d like your account removed. This will use even more resources.
If they do not respond to either the data request or deletion request (or do not fulfil these requests fully), you can make a complaint with your local data protection office or the one Reddit is based in (maybe Ireland?). Make sure you invoke GDPR using the correct language for your request.
Here’s a template letter of how to do so under GDPR. You must request your data or the deletion of you data using the correct legal framework (quoting the correct legislation) and these templates make this easy. Plus they cover more types of data than just your posts and comments.
Whenever I do this with other companies I do a SAR to get a copy of the data, then a RTBF request to get the data removed, then another SAR to see what they retained.
A significant number say they delete your data and then happily send it back to you a coupla months later when you make an SAR. The ICO loves those ones.
That’s a great idea, I’ll do this too.
Having also worked somewhere that was under GDPR, weaponised bureaucracy like this can really be used to consume staff resources.
Edit: it looks like Reddit have changed their data request form. To make a full GDPR request, with the additional data in the template, you’ll need to email your request to Reddit ([email protected]).
You can not only request your data, but also request information regarding how your data is processed and also about psudo-anonymised data. These are much harder to automate a response to.
See here for examples from the template:
- the purposes of the processing;
- the categories of personal data concerned;
- the recipients or categories of recipient to whom the personal data have been or will be disclosed;
- where possible, the envisaged period for which the personal data will be stored, or, if not possible, the criteria used to determine that period;
- where the personal data are not collected from the data subject, any available information as to their source;
- the existence of automated decision-making, including profiling, referred to in Article 22(1) and (4) GDPR and, at least in those cases, meaningful information about the logic involved, as well as the significance and the envisaged consequences of such processing for me.
Done
