I write this because I have several accounts on Reddit and I really want them deleted but I can’t delete them now that I’m permanently banned. I can still go into Reddit and browse. How does that even make sense?

  • MajorHavoc@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    If you’re a European citizen, nothing Reddit does can remove your right to be forgotten.

    If you’re a citizen of a lot of other places, your government doesn’t enforce that right.

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    1 year ago

    Your best bet is probably contacting them. This can be done on this support page. Select ‘Inquiries Related to Your Privacy Rights’ and then under ‘What do you need assistsce with?’, go with ‘Request account deletion/deactivation’. Hope this helps!

  • balls_expert@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 year ago

    I asked for my data to run shreddit on everything several months back and they never got back to me (I’m ip banned). I think I’ll send an email to their legal contact

  • Gnemesis@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Have you tried using Redact? I just nuked my account and posts with no issue. My account was not banned, however. I like the feature that allows one to edit all comments and posts rather than just delete them. I replaced everything with a heartfelt message for u/spez…