It’s literally been proven that they do. A guy here on Lemmy was a very common poster on some tech support subreddit. He used one of those account scrubbers and deleted his account. He went back to look a few weeks later and all his comments were back.
There are archives of all Reddit comments that are collected at the time of posting, all the deletion and scrubbing and whatnot people are doing months or years after the fact doesn’t affect those.
Good thing I scrubbed all of my posts and comments that I could. Fuck that site, straight up and down.
You really think they don’t have your original comments stored?
It’s literally been proven that they do. A guy here on Lemmy was a very common poster on some tech support subreddit. He used one of those account scrubbers and deleted his account. He went back to look a few weeks later and all his comments were back.
Because of GDPR, there should be a way to completely wipe your account
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Oh my sweet summer child
Instead of scrubbing, wordbomb them to screw up any AI training
There are archives of all Reddit comments that are collected at the time of posting, all the deletion and scrubbing and whatnot people are doing months or years after the fact doesn’t affect those.
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