Reddit Search: A search engine for Reddit indexable by user, subreddit, and date
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I mostly do it to see real feedback from real people about whatever I'm interested in, rather than an ad-sense driven list of search results organized in descending order by the highest paying company.
Additionally, Reddit realizes they are being used this way and have made great strides in building out the astroturfing side of their business to allow brands to post ads anonymously.
Proves the point, that once something is on the internet, it's there forever.
> When Your Content is created with or submitted to the Services, you grant us a worldwide, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable, and sublicensable license to use, copy, modify, adapt, prepare derivative works of, distribute, store, perform, and display Your Content and any name, username, voice, or likeness provided in connection with Your Content in all media formats and channels now known or later developed anywhere in the world. This license includes the right for us to make Your Content available for syndication, broadcast, distribution, or publication by other companies, organizations, or individuals who partner with Reddit.
However, this only covers the deletion from reddit itself. There have been periodic reddit archivals ever since it was created. Up to 2015 they were done yearly, ever since they have been done monthly. Since they have always been up for download, all of your reddit data will still be out there, however you can remove your data from the main source of these archives called pushshift. I haven't done it personally but I've seen it said on reddit, you can email the dev of pushshift or dm him on reddit and he will remove your information from his archive.
Can someone please tell me why does the reddit search engine default to searching globally? 99 out of 100 searches I make I am on a subreddit, want to search the subreddit, enter my search term and the first thing it does is search globally. I have to click the link r/subreddit to make it search locally.
Most times the API doesn't even have time to return the results before I click the link and make it do another request to search locally. Isn't that wasteful?
I am of course talking about the new UI.
It's obviously in Reddit's interest for users to be able to search site-wide, but mods can change this behavior.
Seems a fair setup to me.
It's a good reminder to watch what you say on the internet. Nothing ever really disappears.
That's why I always use my real name online; keeps me from saying something I wouldn't say in public.
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/reddit-search-help...
unfortunately the friction of using another search engine is too much for me, this extension helps a little bit at least
This must be why they're login-blocking some big subreddits now, the web scraping precedent that went against LinkedIn must let them know that they can't build a walled garden without making people login first.
Is mbasic facebook still a thing (for messaging)? I'm in the fortunate position of not having to use fb messenger for most of my contacts.
Edit: despite what I said, I think the mobile reddit browser experience is horrible indeed. Usually I change the url to go to i.reddit.com instead, which is much more usable.
The most important thing is that 99% of reddit deletion tools out there (in fact all I have found except for two) do not actually delete your reddit data.
Most of these tools rely on the last 1000 posts and comments listed on your profile but do not delete any other comments or posts you have made and even then, most of these do not edit your comments and posts before deleting which means those 1000 posts and comments are still stored on reddit's servers.
To completely remove your reddit data, I have found only one way and that is with reddit-shreddit [0]. Despite its name being extraordinarily similar to another popular reddit deletion tool called Shreddit [1] which doesn't actually work, it is entirely different. reddit-shreddit works by taking the data from a reddit GDPR data request which includes links to all your posts and comments and editing and deleting each and every one. With this method, reddit-shreddit does not need to scrape posts and comments from reddit to know what to delete. It can leverage the official GDPR-compliant data request from reddit ensuring all of your posts and comments are known and are deleted. If you wish to confirm they are actually deleted, you can submit another data request to verify all of your posts and comments are gone from reddit's servers. It may also be possible to remove your data from reddit with a GDPR request but I'm not sure. I haven't looked into that.
Although you can remove your data from reddit's servers, that does not mean it is gone. Ever since reddit was created, people have been scraping and archiving it. The most popular reddit archiving service is called pushshift and it has archives for every year of reddit up to 2015 when it started archiving every month. Pushshift runs the API that powers this website and other popular reddit tools like removeddit and the former ceddit. Luckily the developer has been known to delete your data if you request it. I've seen it mentioned on reddit that you can email him or pm him on reddit and he will remove your data. Unfortunately all the archives from previous years are still floating around the internet outside of pushshift but at least your data will disappear from the largest source.
That’s a good thing, as I’ve found over-active moderation to be a serious problem on certain subreddits. Especially “Ask” ones like /r/askhistorians. So many insightful or helpful comments are deleted because a trigger-happy moderator arbitrarily decides they don’t “fit the rules,” which of course are flexible for some but not others.