That’s not entirely true. I edited and removed all my comments with nuke reddit during the API fiasco. Then I demanded my data every month until they started ignoring me - just to be annoying, of course. But I did get it and it had every comment, vote, etc.
The account info they have is, sadly, thorough. However I did successfully bork about 30% of my comments. Better than nothing.
Would it not have been smarter to subtly alter them, in order to not trigger database rollbacks? Swap several words around in a paragraph and you can ruin intelligibility.
Right but on the backend they capture deltas, then emit the newest version. Aside from explicit gdpr requests (lol) they never actually delete the originals (more lol).
Then I demanded my data every month until they started ignoring me - just to be annoying, of course
Wow, you’re the kind of person that makes every worker in IT hate the GDPR. It’s good for consumers. Until the consumer is you. Think of the fact that a person has to actually fulfill that request, and you know that management never paid for tooling for that, they have to fuck around manually in the database every time.
Why should I give two fucking shits what Reddit endures when it profited off my free labor for a decade and had the audacity to call me “landed gentry” for daring to question yet another boneheaded decision and for calling out their continued refusal to make the Reddit mobile app more accessible? And let’s not pretend it didn’t take someone all of 10s to comply with the request. God forbid they get paid to do their job.
To me there’s a huge difference between being angry at a company and its leadership, and taking out the anger on the workers that are probably just as angry at their own management. It’s like someone yelling at a level 1 phone support, as if that magically makes them able to help you, which is usually something they would be fired for even if they had the system access to fix the problem. They’re paid to handle standard questions with a standard answer catalogue and nothing more.
You’re not making life for the management difficult by repeatedly asking for a GDPR readout. Just for the workers who are already being paid fuck all to do shitty work in too long hours.
Until you can prove it actually is burdensome to an individual instead of assuming it is I simply do not care. It’s a friggin csv file. I guarantee you it is either automated or takes 2 seconds. I’m not in Europe, it’s not even GDPR compliance related. It is incredibly unlikely a company of their scale is doing those manually. I’m sorry if you have some job where that experience is very relatable, but you are projecting your own frustrations onto a situation where we don’t even know what they’re doing. The most likely scenario is somebody making California tech company pay wrote something so they barely have to think about it.
Edit: look I get you. I am frustrated with Reddit and I’m taking it out on you. Let’s just move on.
That’s not entirely true. I edited and removed all my comments with nuke reddit during the API fiasco. Then I demanded my data every month until they started ignoring me - just to be annoying, of course. But I did get it and it had every comment, vote, etc.
The account info they have is, sadly, thorough. However I did successfully bork about 30% of my comments. Better than nothing.
Would it not have been smarter to subtly alter them, in order to not trigger database rollbacks? Swap several words around in a paragraph and you can ruin intelligibility.
Right but on the backend they capture deltas, then emit the newest version. Aside from explicit gdpr requests (lol) they never actually delete the originals (more lol).
Wow, you’re the kind of person that makes every worker in IT hate the GDPR. It’s good for consumers. Until the consumer is you. Think of the fact that a person has to actually fulfill that request, and you know that management never paid for tooling for that, they have to fuck around manually in the database every time.
Why should I give two fucking shits what Reddit endures when it profited off my free labor for a decade and had the audacity to call me “landed gentry” for daring to question yet another boneheaded decision and for calling out their continued refusal to make the Reddit mobile app more accessible? And let’s not pretend it didn’t take someone all of 10s to comply with the request. God forbid they get paid to do their job.
Fuck Reddit.
To me there’s a huge difference between being angry at a company and its leadership, and taking out the anger on the workers that are probably just as angry at their own management. It’s like someone yelling at a level 1 phone support, as if that magically makes them able to help you, which is usually something they would be fired for even if they had the system access to fix the problem. They’re paid to handle standard questions with a standard answer catalogue and nothing more.
You’re not making life for the management difficult by repeatedly asking for a GDPR readout. Just for the workers who are already being paid fuck all to do shitty work in too long hours.
Until you can prove it actually is burdensome to an individual instead of assuming it is I simply do not care. It’s a friggin csv file. I guarantee you it is either automated or takes 2 seconds. I’m not in Europe, it’s not even GDPR compliance related. It is incredibly unlikely a company of their scale is doing those manually. I’m sorry if you have some job where that experience is very relatable, but you are projecting your own frustrations onto a situation where we don’t even know what they’re doing. The most likely scenario is somebody making California tech company pay wrote something so they barely have to think about it.
Edit: look I get you. I am frustrated with Reddit and I’m taking it out on you. Let’s just move on.