They will tell you you have to delete it yourself.
Comments are technically not necessarily covered under GDPR after they are decoupled from your account and they have no knowledge that it contains other personal data. (which they do not have to check by themselves, that would be ridiculous anyways)
So yes, you do need to run PowerDeleteSuite and then delete your account via account settings (which then triggers deletion in accordance of Article 17)
u could also try making small valid changes to detail over time until the posted content is unrecognizable and probably** false.
eg: i drive a red car
i drive a blue car
i drive a blue truck
i dont drive anything
those are all possibly true. but alot of them are incorrect.
A python script hooked up to the openai API could be a fun way to play with this. Just edit the comments with random bs somehow marginally related to the original topic but incorrect.
It's a real shame though because those old comments are often lifesavers when you're looking into really niche subjects.
I was thinking about manually editing every comment to replace them with lorem ipsums and similar rubbish text, I wonder if they would mark that as "suspicious activity" and lock me out of my account? I read some people in the past had similar issues with mass deletions or edits.
PowerDeleteSuite doesn't work for me. https://old.reddit.com/u/me/overview takes me to a login page (even though I'm already signed in) and when I sign in there, the same page just comes back again without the credentials I typed in.
Same thing happens in Firefox and Edge.
I swear it worked last year. Is it now broken or am I just really stupid?
update: turns out PowerDeleteSuite and others can only delete your 1000 most recent comments (a limit set by reddit), but I found something that actually works and does a thorough job. https://github.com/andrewbanchich/shreddit
There are step-by-step instructions on the page.
I'm running the program in PowerShell with the GDPR option, and it's been nicely chugging away for hours now.
Except people like me sometimes are desperate for a solution. Besides, I suspect they are going to shoot themselves in the foot even more with some bad policy.
I don't really don't understand the dislike of Reddit. If you don't want to use it then don't. Overtime I suspect they will fall into decline
Is anyone concerned that by deleting their reddit comments they might be reducing their chances of being able to someday tongue punch Spez in his sweaty fart-box?