Here's their response: We have reviewed your request for access. Unfortunately, we cannot grant approval because the submission is not in compliance with Reddit’s Responsible Builder Policy and/or lacks necessary details.
Surely they have to comply with EU laws. They can't leave your data up without permission?
The more I learned about reddit's early history, the more I realized it was always rather toxic. Alexis and Steve (and Jeremy) were totally fine with Michael Brutsch (/u/violentacrez) promoting lots of gross shit (jailbait, pics of dead kids etc.) until they caught some bad publicity and it started to affect their bottom line.
I guess everyone has their price, and money talks, but it really seemed (and still seems) like reddit is happy to host all kinds of horrific content until said content results in negative press, and then suddenly it's about "protecting users", those same users that the reddit staff clearly didn't give two shits about the week prior. They care about privacy, except when it's about targeting ads to users or selling user data to advertisers. They care about the integrity of the platform, except when Steve Huffman was editing user comments for funsies.
The hypocrisy galls me more than anything.
Other ideas include pulling the auth token from your logged in cookie and using it outside the browser. Don't forget to use a standard Chrome user agent.
Rate limits are also quite low so it might take weeks to delete. Many subs will automatically ban you if you edit a comment to say something like 'redacted by' (ex: https://www.reddit.com/r/ModSupport/comments/1t1fekj/redact_...)
log in, click on my profile, press f-12, go to console, run some script i found a while ago.
get to watch em go, one at a time. slow process compared to a API key but it's nice to see what I wrote 6 months ago and what the final karma score was.
probably gonna stop using the site in a month or so tho. site has gone down hill
But to spend buckets of money getting 3p devs to build stupid little games in-app while also actively banning the huge suite of tools that people actually care about because they can access your actual reddit data and do actual things...
Just baffling. I blame the corrupting influence of YC, personally.
And yes, their copy around basically everything is just insultingly, laughably bad. Presumably because they refuse to hire enough people to provide details with any sort of reliability.
[For the record, I don’t question your personal belief.]
Did you know Conde’ Nast bought Reddit twenty years ago?
And as a publicly traded company since 2024, it is driven by Wall Street expectations?
And before Reddit had achieved significant value (as a startup).
I believe Condé Nast bought the whole thing because I have never seen anything to suggest otherwise. And because it is about the only thing that would have made business sense.
But I could be wrong.
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I believe Reddit was sold before Altman batched.
Graham Platner