Many Redditors were caught off guard by the removal of their chat and message history.

Reddit removes years of chat and message archives from users’ accounts::undefined

  • Cloudless ☼English
    16•2 years ago

    Text takes very little space, so I don’t think it is mainly about storage costs.

    I think they just want to save the data migration costs.

      • JackbyDevEnglish
        1•2 years ago

        Heo the hell do you scrape private chat logs? lol. Get a grip.

      • @kereshnull@infosec.pubEnglish
        1•2 years ago

        You cannot sell active data without explicit consent but what if data that has been “deleted” accidentally gets shared with a 3rd party 🙈