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by scrollaway 2948 days ago
Not GP but scraping data for personal projects off companies overprotective of their data is probably the most common example.
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Figs 2948 days ago
Trying to get your entire reddit history, for example, is an obnoxiously difficult thing to do. It's impossible to get more than 1000 comments with the officially supported mechanism, leading people to do all kinds of strange workarounds to try to find older comments.

As a 10 year redditor, that really frustrates me, since I can't go back and see my early posts any more.

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toomuchtodo 2948 days ago
Curious if Reddit will have to provide an easy mechanism to retrieve all of your comments now as part of GDPR.
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maxyme 2948 days ago
Check the announcement post. In a comment one of the admins said they will eventually but for now it's email only for residents of the EU.

https://www.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/8m2yr4/were_...

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duxup 2947 days ago
If everyone in the EU could email them to speed this up that would be great.
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mathgeek 2948 days ago
> As a 10 year redditor, that really frustrates me, since I can't go back and see my early posts any more.

I'd much rather they let you get your own history out and then make it impossible to get said history for anyone else (unless that person chooses to allow it).

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