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by Vinnl 653 days ago
Huh! I wonder how that works if the deletion isn't synced with other clients yet.
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It stores the deleted ranges, but not the chars of text that compose those ranges.

So from a privacy perspective, you see the metadata of edit history (the DAG of character positions edited), but are blind to the text.

Ah! That makes sense, thanks - today I learned!