On multiple accounts(!) I have found every post I deleted within the last years to be visible again on my profile page (marked as deleted) to the public for everyone to see! It must have happened this week or so.
This is a known issue and has happened again and again for some users, especially in 2023 when they made up some BS explanation for it, which according to people on Ycombinator (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36354850) didn't even make sense and totally contradicted what everyone was reporting. Anyway ...
This means that if you ever accidentally doxxed yourself, pasted credit card information and other private things AND THEN INSTANTLY DELETED THAT POST within 5 seconds, so no big deal ... THIS WILL NOW ALL BE VISIBLE ON YOUR PROFILE PAGE TO THE PUBLIC.
EVEN WORSE IF YOU DELETED YOUR ACCOUNT YOU WILL NOT BE ABLE TO RE-DELETE YOUR UNDELETED POSTS (as reported and confirmed by many users on Ycombinator in 2023 incident - where also original posts only were restored but not any edits to them).
Thanks Reddit.
Lession learned in 2023 for Reddit's owners? ACTUALLY DELETE POSTS NOT JUST HIDE THEM FROM THE OWNER. But they did nothing of the sort, simply serving in self-interest to preserve their content offering. This is a blatant violation of basic data privacy laws.
Such an incident is unspeakable and remarkably worse than database leaks of user passwords.
I don't know if anything has changed, but at least it used to be the case that editing a reddit comment to remove something really deleted the original text in their database, but deleting it did not.
In the 2023 incident, edits were not restored only the original text written. So overwriting your posts with empty text before deleting them isn't actually safe.
On multiple accounts(!) I have found every post I deleted within the last years to be visible again on my profile page (marked as deleted) to the public for everyone to see! It must have happened this week or so.
This is a known issue and has happened again and again for some users, especially in 2023 when they made up some BS explanation for it, which according to people on Ycombinator (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36354850) didn't even make sense and totally contradicted what everyone was reporting. Anyway ...
This means that if you ever accidentally doxxed yourself, pasted credit card information and other private things AND THEN INSTANTLY DELETED THAT POST within 5 seconds, so no big deal ... THIS WILL NOW ALL BE VISIBLE ON YOUR PROFILE PAGE TO THE PUBLIC.
EVEN WORSE IF YOU DELETED YOUR ACCOUNT YOU WILL NOT BE ABLE TO RE-DELETE YOUR UNDELETED POSTS (as reported and confirmed by many users on Ycombinator in 2023 incident - where also original posts only were restored but not any edits to them).
Thanks Reddit.
Lession learned in 2023 for Reddit's owners? ACTUALLY DELETE POSTS NOT JUST HIDE THEM FROM THE OWNER. But they did nothing of the sort, simply serving in self-interest to preserve their content offering. This is a blatant violation of basic data privacy laws.
Such an incident is unspeakable and remarkably worse than database leaks of user passwords.
I don't know if anything has changed, but at least it used to be the case that editing a reddit comment to remove something really deleted the original text in their database, but deleting it did not.
In the 2023 incident, edits were not restored only the original text written. So overwriting your posts with empty text before deleting them isn't actually safe.
Awesome! There is a lot I want to recover.
Like passwords from other people?
I had a lot of threads which I commented and the other guy deleted afterwards. I want to recover that and see their usernames and what they wrote.