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I deleted all my post from my reddit account, can they still monetize them? (linux.community)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by vestmoria@linux.community to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Deleting a post is simply marking a piece of text so nobody sees it, but I think the text is still stored in their servers.

Furthermore, a large company like reddit, must backup regularly, meaning there must be several copies of my posts in several SSDs. If the backup once a day… some of my posts are 5 years old.

Companies exist to make money. I suspect they just marked my posts not to be readable by anyone, except staff and they can still monetize them.

Am I wearing a tinfoil hat way too often?

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[–] RedditWanderer@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

Personally it brings me joy to see that you're falling on empty posts from top google searches, and hope you find many more in the future. You're just saying that you prefer to give money to Reddit if it's convenient for you.

That's the entire point of leaving reddit with our 10+ years of contribution; leaving reddit wasn't convenient for me, I'm not gonna help it be convenient for you. Get rekt spez.

[–] octobob@lemmy.ml 13 points 10 months ago (2 children)

"the internet is turning into a hellscape so I'm going to make it worse"

Cool? I guess?

[–] LWD@lemm.ee 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

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[–] RedditWanderer@lemmy.world 0 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Reddit is turning into a corporate hellscape so I'm going to help make it worse.

FTFY. The community didn't start this and Reddit shouldn't succeed just because we want good memes. There are other ways.

[–] datavoid@lemmy.ml 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

How does looking at reddit from a search, not logged in, and with an ad blocker, give reddit money?

[–] RedditWanderer@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Your ad blockers and "not logged in" protections aren't actually protections. You're still tracked on VPN and icognito. Sure now it's not necessarily your account (although they can make good guesses), but to them it's someone. Every month youre making it on charts of "real active user data", helping reddit continue to look profitable as a business. They'll likely be able to hold on a bit longer and get funding until adblockers go away.

Just visiting reddit isn't in my list though, it doesn't help reddit that much. Either way I don't see why I should leave my helpful content up for others to view. I don't get to pick to show my post only to adblock people, so OP definitely has an impact deleting them.

[–] datavoid@lemmy.ml 2 points 10 months ago

That's totally fair, I deleted my comments and account as well. Definitely not interacting with the site anymore besides the occasional search for niche info