Several of us have noticed this since the protests and mass exodus started. It did seem that editing then deleting might protect against Reddit's restoration of posts and comments.

Update: Just checked. They've restored a lot of my old posts. This may turn into a years-long game of whack-a-mole trying to actually get our material deleted from that site.

I’m in the US and deleted all my posts & comments months ago. I also deleted my account when the whole ruckus started over there. Just tried this search and low and behold, my old posts came up. Not happy about this.

Search engines do not scrape the entire internet every single time someone searches. They do routine scrapes of web content and create a cache of what was there, and search that cache. This is why updates to websites do not always reflect on searches.

You're contents are findable on Google because the last time they bothered to scrape that particular Reddit post was when your comment was intact, and they have not had a need to scrape it again since then.

The EU needs to smack Reddit with those fat GDPR-violation fines.

They literally rolled back subreddit comments posts and all by weeks and years. so doesnt surprise me. We were their "item sold" and they aint giving that up. Sadly seems like the protests didnt do much. Some of us left but that about it.

They’re doing It to mine too.

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How about instead of deleting, you edit the comment so it's taken completely out of context. Nonsense words, random poems, list of colors, etc.

Do you see them from a throwaway account?

I thought some of my old posts were restored but it turned out that those subreddits were still dark when I ran the delete script and had since reopened. Don't know if this is the same situation as you but maybe check if that is the case?

OP said they did exactly that using shreddit.

Edit: Lemmy acting weird, this is supposed to be a comment to user ricecooker.

Sigh, whatever.

This is more a function of how Reddit’s databases and listings work. Automated tools can’t find all of your content because of the limitations on listings. It’s really funny though that people are ascribing abilities to a company with a very low competency level.

same, i used Power Delete Suite and confirmed i deleted everything, but searching my old username pulls up a lot of posts and comments. all the posts still seem to be deleted but i'm seeing comments where the username is deleted but the comment is back.

I replaced all of mine with “fuck spez” and then deleted my account but not posts, so they’re still there. I went back and checked lol

Would it be better to edit posts and change them to nonsense? Random poems, list of dog breeds, song lyrics, random SQL code...

An easy test would be to load that thread in incognito and see if it shows the undeleted version.