Asklemmy @lemmy.ml Gmork @lemmy.ml 2y ago

Scrubbing My Reddit Account

What is the best most effective way to delete my Reddit post history and account.

I have seen people mention programs that they use to go through and delete their entire Reddit history, or edit their posts and replacing the content with a single word, and then deleting their account.

I do not use it like I used to, so I would like to get rid of every digital fingerprint that I can on the site.

Any help or advice would be appreciated!

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I used https://redact.dev/ which handled most of my social media & messaging apps. I helped them troubleshoot ancient skype messages, and they got it working.
- That looks really nice. It looks quite thorough as it handles many different services, though I am disappointed it's not open source.
  
  I know that I had seen some open source programs or scripts that people used in the past. I believe when I checked them out they were hosted on GitHub, but I have long forgotten what they were.
  
  Regardless it looks like this program will absolutely do the job, but I'm going to hold out for a few days and see if there any other suggestions.
  
  Thanks for the help!
  
  Agreed on open source. If you come across a good one please link
You might have been looking for Shreddit... Here's one repository that appears to be up to date.
I used this https://github.com/j0be/PowerDeleteSuite
An account deletion will remove your profile and dissociate posts and comments from your username. That is not enough?

Have you tried asking them to delete them through redditdatarequests@reddit.com?

See https://www.reddit.com/policies/privacy-policy#policy-h2-2
- Nope! That is not enough.
  
  I want to edit every single comment or post that I ever made and replace it with a single word or phrase. Then I want to delete my account and disassociate everything.
  
  If you delete your account by regular means, if someone has a direct link, they can still view what was originally posted.
  
  That is why I want to edit everything beforehand so if someone does happen to figure out a direct link they will not see what I originally posted.
  
  I haven't posted anything bad. It's certainly overkill. I don't ever intend to be Doxxed (Does anyone?), but if someone ever gained access to my Reddit history they could learn quite a lot about me.
  
  If I can run a simple program or script to tidy things up then I might as well.
  
  I imagine I will be doing this within the next couple of weeks.
  
  …and why not ask them to delete it?

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