Do the advantages of deleting one’s entire Reddit history outweigh the disadvantages?
I have previously nuked my first Reddit account because it felt satisfactory to be completely detached from a platform one considers unethical/bad. Though, I have garnered quite some history on a second account—because Duty Calls*, of course—and I’m considering doing the same.
However, I don’t want to do it impulsively. I think I might be blind to some disadvantages. What do you think?
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I mean I could have used the GDPR (still a thing in the UK, at least for now). But didn’t see it as worth it. It really wouldn’t be worth the risk selling data that was deleted from a GDPR request.
I don’t know that they’ll risk using the data from deleted posts/comments though anyway. Most comments and posts will be deleted for a reason (moderation, or otherwise mistakes) and as such, likely isn’t going to make the best training data really.
It’s far easier to just sell the live data and be done with it.