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[–] 1d3 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago  (edited ago)

By editing all posts and deleting the account, Reddit no longer has any content or information on you worth selling. As it is now, Reddit keeps selling everything they can of yours to everyone they can find who wants it.

It's nothing big, just if you don't want Reddit to make any more money off of the content you added to the site and information you revealed about yourself.

Edit: They'd probably keep selling the profile they already built on you, I'm not sure but I'd guess you accepted this in a previous privacy agreement.

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[–] 2stix 1 point 0 points (+1|-1) ago  (edited ago)

Ohhhh, thanks, I was totally unaware that they sell that kind of information! Edit; So if I deleted my account, does it actually delete from their servers etc or does it just stop me being able to log in and show that the account was deleted on posts I had put up?

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[–] 1d3 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago  (edited ago)

Selling user information is probably Reddit's biggest source of profit if you do not take investors into the equation.

The account gets deleted, while the posts stay but with [Deleted] or similar (cant remember) as the poster. The posts are most likely still tied to your user profile which can still be sold, but it wasn't until 1/1/16 that Reddit gave themselves the power to archive your posts so that deleting them would make no difference. At this point, I'm pretty sure editing out all your posts will not really make any difference, since they are all archived to the profile they sell if they are doing what their privacy agreement indicates.

I'd delete my account and just forget about the posts, too late to really do anything about those, just don't make any new ones that will help them monetize you even more. Honestly i wouldn't mind a site selling user information as long as its not sensitive information, and as long as the site is not ran by complete asshats like Reddit who are just dancing to the investors tune. As it stands now, most major websites sell any and all information they can get their hands on, advertising companies most likely know us better than we know ourselves at this point.