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I'm in the process of trying to delete my reddit account, but they do not honour GDPR deletion requests. Not sure why they're operating in the EU?

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If they have no employees and no servers in the EU, there is nothing they are required to do. You could try to get a judgement in a US court based on a EU law, but that won't go well.

Are you sure? I used to see adverts for jobs in their Amsterdam office. Going on their careers page, they currently are looking for SREs in Amsterdam, Dublin, and Berlin.

IANAL, but my understanding is the GDPR applies if they have users located in the EU, regardless of where the servers and company is located.

If Reddit wants to serve ads to users in the EU and store their info (email, ip, post content, etc), then the GDPR absolutely applies.

Enforcement is another question, but several US companies have been fined due to GDPR violations.

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