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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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[-] ActuallyRuben@actuallyruben.nl 2 points 1 year ago

They're definitely automated. I doubt it'll do much in terms of protesting.

[-] rikudou@lemmings.world 1 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 0 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 1 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.

[-] Serinus@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

If you're a European citizen. They'll fulfill this request (after 30 days) regardless, but I don't believe they're legally obligated to for US citizens.

It's just easier to comply with EU laws for everyone than it is for them to figure out if you're a European citizen or not.

[-] hypelightfly@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

They are legally obligated for some US citizens. California (~40 million people) has a law similar to GDPR.

They also don't have a way to check where you live so you can do the request and select either option (GDPR or CCPA) and they will fulfill the request.

[-] NoIWontPickaName@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago

I got mine in 30-60 minutes and it is only 10.4 Mb

[-] PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

I have a feeling mine would be a few gigabytes. Videos images etc

[-] CoLa666@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

It is missing the r/place pixels ...

[-] HughJanus@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago

...and if they don't? Because they haven't.

[-] Michal@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago

Check your reddit inbox. I just checked mine and realized they fulfilled the request last month, but the download link has expired. I had to make a new request.

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