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  • apemint@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    10 months ago

    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?

      • apemint@lemmy.worldEnglish
        9·
        10 months ago

        Same. It’s 12 years for me.

        Anyway, here’s to wasting another 13 years in the fediverse! 🍺

      • apemint@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        10 months ago

        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.

        • Transporter Room 3@startrek.website
          1·
          10 months ago

          I must be an idiot or something because I’ve been trying to figure out how to use shreddit and after an hour of fiddling with things all I can manage is powershell telling me it can’t use “<” or telling me I got the command syntax wrong.

          Maybe the directions assume the user has some knowledge of programming stuff, but I sure as heck don’t know it.

          Edit: I was an idiot…

          Edit 2: it’s working but I have to babysit it. It stops randomly. after 100 posts without gdpr export

          It got all my posts, it’s just working for about 2 minutes on my comments before it just stops and I have to re-enter the command.

          • apemint@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            10 months ago

            That’s strange. It took me a while to figure out as well, but then worked non-stop for an entire day.

            This is what I ran:

            C:\Users\workPC\Documents\reddit-data\shreddit-windows.exe --username blah --password blah --client-id blah --client-secret blah --gdpr-export-dir C:\Users\workPC\Documents\reddit-data\export_blah_20240225

            It’s possible reddit is rate limiting you, or the program loses access to the gdpr folder it’s pulling the links from (antivirus?). You could try running it from a different path or on a different pc.
            I ran the .exe from the same “reddit-data” folder that contained the gdpr files just to be safe with folder permissions and stuff.

            • Transporter Room 3@startrek.website
              1·
              10 months ago

              So I finally managed to figure it out and let the gdpr run for 3 days.

              After day 1 I figured out without the gdpr folder, you can only delete a certain amount, 100 I think.

              The rate limit is also set to 30/min (sleep 2s between actions) so I managed to get two instances running at once without hitting the limit.

              One gdpr deleting from 2010 onward, one with an auto-typer hitting f3+enter ever 2 minutes 21 seconds to delete from 2023 backward.

              Took another 2 days but I managed to delete my old profile. Googling will bring up a few archived posts on other websites, and name mentions but no posts, and the random sampling I did showed nothing when I tried checking on the individual comments.

              So it took me a bit to figure out, but I managed.

              They definitely assume people have a certain level of knowledge of things when doing the documentation, but luckily it’s easy to find information.

              • apemint@lemmy.worldEnglish
                1·
                10 months ago

                Cool, you managed to get it working after all. I never used Power Shell before this either.
                It’s ridiculous the average user has to jump through all these hoops just to regain control of their own data.

                • Transporter Room 3@startrek.website
                  1·
                  10 months ago

                  Hey maybe someday there will be a website that just allows you to delete everything they have on you at any time for any reason with only a few clicks and no input on their side…

                  I can dream!