The newly announced “Public Content Policy” will now join Reddit’s existing privacy policy and content policy to guide how Reddit’s data is being accessed and used by commercial entities and other partners.
Unfortunately, we see more and more commercial entities using unauthorized access or misusing authorized access to collect public data in bulk, including Reddit public content, worse, these entities perceive they have no limitation on their usage of that data, and they do so with no regard for user rights or privacy, ignoring reasonable legal, safety, and user removal requests. While we will continue our efforts to block known bad actors, we need to do more to restrict access to Reddit public content at scale to trusted actors who have agreed to abide by our policies. But we also need to continue to ensure that users, mods, researchers, and other good-faith, non-commercial actors have access.”
So, pay to get access, like Google did with their $60 million deal. We’re nothing but money to them.
You always were.
We’re nothing but money to them.
Welcome to capitalism?
Always has been.
They do so with no regard for user rights or privacy
Yeah but throw them a buck and all those rights and privacy go away
You fellow Lemmings / banned Redditors wanna try to have some fun? Let me know if you can view my edited comment, edited well after my ban…
Please let me know if you folks can or can’t read my post-ban edited comment. I’m experimenting on how much I can do with my old banned Reddit account.
Does this help?
Yes! This confirms others can access and view my edit!
I can even reply to it.
Haha, cool cool!
We don’t know how deletions work on the back end of Reddit. It might just be marked deleted but exist on the servers. And I assume that’s the case. Especially for things >24 hours
Still, I just edited my comment from like 2 years ago, under my banned account, under a deleted post…
I got 7 years worth of Reddit comments I can edit! I could make my own custom fragmented Base64 filesystem with my old comments LOL!
Good luck :p
I just tried editing another old comment to drop in the entire Bee Movie script.
Reddit gave me an error that said it must be under 10,000 characters. Welp, now we know the limits!
We’re pushing the system on what is possible
I believe it was in gurren lagan where they said “reject common sense to make the impossible possible”
Anything is possible, especially with teamwork…
Whether I fully master this sort of process first or not is beside the point. It really takes teamwork.
I’m just proving the concept to start with…
Make sure you use those 10000 characters as wisely as possible to thwart good compression.
Ah, I like the way you think!
It’s still just a fresh idea that’s only been bouncing around in my head for the past few days.
Had to get confirmation others can see it first before considering how to proceed.
I’m not exactly in any rush, but it’s a proof of concept…
Back when i left reddit after the 3pa fiasco I used a browser side script to sift through all my comments and posts, edit them to a fuck spez message, and then delete. Made the whole process very convenient.
It is called power delete suite
And actually, it is known how Reddit flags deleted stuff. They flag it with 999.
We can thank Camas for that…
I can see the comment
I can see it via the webapp
Cool beans!
I just stress tested the idea with the entire Bee Movie script, Reddit said it has to be less than 10,000 characters…
So now we know the limits!
Hahaha nice!
It’s amazing to me so many people expect privacy while blasting their mouth online. Everyone has been scraping that data for years.
It’s amazing to me that so many people have accepted a completely warped conception of consent and continue to argue that it’s ok.
Jesus Christ. It’s a PUBLIC forum . My head hurts. I’ll be here channeling my inner boomer at 38 apparently.
You consented when you made the choice to use SOMEONE ELSES PUBLIC COMMUNICATION PLATFORM.
No, there is a point beyond which the use of data becomes unethical and outside what normal people would actually consider what they reasonably consented to.
If you post on a forum, and I collect your data, create a unique writing style profile for you and then match it against other data I scrape or buy from across the web, perhaps your address you used to buy something that was also released to third-party advertisers because you didn’t read some three mile long EULA and I’m able to find all those details, then I use that data and go murder you I don’t then get to argue in court “Well, they posted all that info online, so they were consenting to me using their data in this circuitous, unintuitive way. They wanted me to commit this crime against them.”
That’s not consent. That’s a sociopaths conception of consent.
I get the tech cult has made it really difficult for people to understand these concepts, but it is not ethical to pretend that when people post on a social media page with the purpose of having discussion and debate that they also intend for their data to be used in these other tangential ways.
Normal people don’t shout in public places and expect privacy.
I am Jack’s unconcealed surprise.
My concern is that Reddit will still be one of the biggest social media site that hosts multiple valuable resources that had been gathered for nearly 20 years. This reason alone will not dissuade users from leaving. I love AskHistorians, but I doubt they will migrate somewhere, and the treasure trove of knowledge from the subreddit could not be moved elsewhere. Reddit knows this so they will continue with their shenanigans.
Edit: clarity
