It just feels kind of gross having parts of me hanging out on the internet for too long. Like I haven’t been able to wash my hands/face for a while. I do it manually occasionally, but I have to block off a morning or evening for it now when I used to be able to do it with a couple mouse clicks then go off to take a shit or w/e.
I’m not convinced that those deletion tools work on Reddit either; there’s nothing stopping Reddit (or whatever site you’re trying to scrub) from restoring your edits (which they’ve done to lots of people recently) or even just viewing the older version of your comment that is still present in their database without publicly showing that text.
Just because you’ve used some script that claims to scrub your data doesn’t mean it did so. At most you may have toggled an
is_deleted=trueflag, or added another edit entry to the table your original comment was stored in, but that doesn’t mean nobody has your data anymore.The only way to be sure nobody can ever see your post history is to never make posts in the first place.
I used one of those to edit all my comments and then delete them. Then i requested my data under GDPR and all original comments are there.