I can't delete my reddit account.
Reddit decided that i can’t delete my account, i tried several times with no luck. Do you have ideas? Should i get myself banned?
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Reddit decided that i can’t delete my account, i tried several times with no luck. Do you have ideas? Should i get myself banned?
Make a comment saying „Luigi is good“ or something like that, that should get rid of your Reddit account.
Just send a GDPR deletion request. You can find ready made texts online. Just plug in your email/username and send it. Make sure to request a confirmation of the deletion.
Wouldn't that require an EU citizenship/ residence? I always assumed that was the case...
Try using the site?
Yey, that worked! Thanks man!
Don't delete your account. There are browser plugins that will edit all your posts to nonsense to fuck up AI models. Be a burden.
They reverted mine before. It's Reddit, if they don't have backups or methods to detect mass edits or deletions, I'd be shocked.
But the reversion sets them back and requires resources
preserving your data is more valuable for them than the time spent rewinding your account back half an hour.
hell, they might even have it as an automated script that fires off after it detects to many post edits from your account or something.
Shit. I would have done this.
That's funny. I live in a small country so I can't stop being banned. All I have to do is comment "hey" and my account is gone instantly.
why? does reddit just assume any and all traffic from your country is VPN traffic?
it's not just Reddit. it's more websites every year.
I've worked as a sysadmin at companies who have done it. they blacklist an ASN which covers an entire ISP, or they just straight up ban the entire country. it's the easiest way to get rid of a few kids running penetration scans against the site or whatever. they don't get much revenue from the users in these countries and so they don't care. access to the collective knowledge of humanity is always getting smaller in developing countries.
wow that's so shitty holy heck. i hope none of those websites are essential, or if they are that you find a free and working VNP
I think we can all agree, Nutsack is being falsely maligned.
Wow
what small country is that? I've never heard of this
So when I deleted my account a few years back, i hade a Firefox script delete all my posts and comments.
Then i created a ticket for support asking to apply my right to be forgotten, according tomy GDPR rights and also a written confirmation that my content would not be recreated after deletion.
They will play hard but just say that you then will need their official information such as conpony name, adress, phone number, email, reg number and preferred communication method for your local data authority to contact them.
They complied with my request without any fuss. I didn't even have access to my account due to losing my 2fa device.
I wonder if one could use a Euro VPN provider to say that they've moved to a GDPR country to affect this outcome by having a Euro IP. It might work.
"Oh no. Our automatic door seems to have suffered a unfortunate malfunction while you were trying to leave the premises."
Try the website, old.reddit.com in particular.
Make sure you go back and delete every comment or posting first.
Doesn't matter don't do it.
A few months back someone posted that they found all of their deleted posts from when the great migration to Lemmy happened. And I checked myself that day and found that a large portion of my posts that I had deleted were restored. And I had verified the day that I had left Reddit that my posts were gone. There was no history on my account. And if I look right now those posts exist again.
I've heard that editing your comments into random sentences is an effective workaround.
You can only go so far back, and then it won't let you edit older posts. I tried many months ago.
That's both frustrating and evil.
You have to use the API and scripts.
I recommend using a tool to scramble all of your comments, waiting a while, and then deleting. Check back every few days to verify deletion before ultimately closing your account. For some reason, if a subreddit is hidden or closed, you can delete your messages from there until it's reopened.
I spent about 2 weeks deleting my accounts from reddit during the mobile app exodus.
yep, looks like mine are back as well. wow.
Only thing i regret about deleting my reddit was not doing this beforehand :l
Also just remembered i may have some lost account that isnt deleted, shrug
You can check out any time you want.
But you can never leave.
You could try posting pro-mangione stuff Or just harden your browser
You mean stuff like:
Feels So Good released in 1978 reached number 4 on the Billboard Hot 100.
Just get banned. It's pretty easy nowadays.
Yeah, there's a simple code for it, you just have to type "Luigi spez" and they'll handle this for you.
New meta: ban golf
I don't think you're going to get more efficient than "Luigi" right now, which I think might just do it.
Honestly the cultural power that word has right now is inspiring. They are so afraid, and people are seeing that they're afraid, and that has power in itself.
No, don't. Banned accounts look good in their statistics to investors, like they care about users and enforce strict moderation. Or they shrug you off as part of a bot army or something.
Actual deletion means a conscious act of a user to leave the platform.
Having the same problem with Twitter account lol got banned 2023 for being nafo embassador but now can't delete the account somehow.
Slava Ukraïni 🇺🇦🫶🏽🤍
Do it on the desktop website, their mobile stuff is broken beyond repair.
I’ve been trying to delete my Facebook for years
Are people really having trouble with it? I did it several years ago. I recall it being a fairly easy process.
I’m gonna see if that link from the other comment works, but I’ve tried a few times and the page to delete your account mysteriously would never load for me.
Are you using a VPN or browser they don't like? Have you tried on a different device? It might be worth trying.
You are not the only one. I don’t know if this will help you but try https://www.facebook.com/deactivate. I also searched on YouTube and it helped to navigate through a long intensive map out of where to click. I hope this helps you out.
Just stop going there. Delete the app, delete the bookmark, and move on with your life.
Yeah I deleted the app and the shortcut on the top of my browser and I dont get the urge anymore
I stopped browsing on my phone during the API debacle, I'd check in on my computer every so often, then I got sick of all the Reddit-ness of everything, deleted the bookmark, and haven't been back.
All I did was make a scene by arguing with a bunch of circle jerking divas and the power tripping mods got me banned.
See if you can sell it then lol
56k + karma up for grabs hit me ... where's that polish chick with the dab rig
They won’t let me kill my account either
Try from desktop. It worked for me.
Well I'm glad I've deleted all my Reddit account before chaos on there
What happens when you click learn more?
You learn that reddit support is a shithole and when you eventually reach the faq for deleting your accout, reddit says 🖕
I believe you're then obligated to deploy to Klendathu within 3 months.
But it's an ugly planet! A bug planet! I don't wanna!
Eff you, Reddit
This doesn't work anymore they shut down the api , if your in a gdpr country just enforce your right.
Hypothetically, if you live in
freedomburger land could you use a VPN and claim gdpr enforcement? Or is there more to it?Gdpr only applies to EU citizens. But your account is anonymous. How would they know you're not?
If they ask for verification which they can do , basicly they can disagree , also if your acc is outside EU gdpr could maybe not apply .
Nice ill check it out.
It works.
https://github.com/j0be/PowerDeleteSuite
Whether it works on the back end and they'll restore your comments or not as a different story.
Yup I've heard of people doing this and then reddit just restores ..
I remember it using the API, which is supposedly disabled now. There are warnings on early Lemmy posts to use the tool before Reddit rolls out the changes.
I believe it might have been called Power Delete Suite
https://github.com/j0be/PowerDeleteSuite
If anyone is considering the same don’t forget to use shreddit first.
Maybe somebody spilled beer on the one and only deletion server.
Even when you're banned you have to delete your account. May as well try as an experiment
Just do something to get it banned.
No, don't. Banned accounts look good in their statistics to investors, like they care about users and enforce strict moderation. Or they shrug you off as part of a bot army or something.
Actual deletion means a conscious act of a user to leave the platform.
i sense reddit will "undelete" accounts in the future much like facebook is doing to show "large number of users"
But OP tried that. What else are they to do?
Escalate it to their support team.