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Re: Show HN: I got tired of reading "This posting has been deleted by its author"

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Post by bee_rider »

AlbertCory wrote: post #61
bee_rider wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is a totally unrelated issue. A file on the internet obviously could be backed up by anyone, so deleting things from the internet does not verifiably restore your privacy. A file on the internet might not be publicly accessible in the future. But that doesn’t mean it hasn’t been backed up privately. It is the worst of both worlds.

You are both talking about what could happen. Indeed it could. Probably it won't, though, for most people.

Many Reddit posts were automatically backed up by various services before the recent API changes.

https://www.makeuseof.com/how-to-see-deleted-reddit-posts/

Re: Show HN: I got tired of reading "This posting has been deleted by its author"

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Post by AlbertCory »

bee_rider wrote: post #81
AlbertCory wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You are both talking about what could happen. Indeed it could. Probably it won't, though, for most people.

Many Reddit posts were automatically backed up by various services before the recent API changes. https://www.makeuseof.com/how-to-see-deleted-reddit-posts/

But not anymore?

Re: Show HN: I got tired of reading "This posting has been deleted by its author"

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Post by xwdv »

Isthatablackgsd wrote: post #74
xwdv wrote: post #27

Reddit is especially bad about this. I’m tired of seeing deleted posts leaving tattered conversations where you can hardly tell what someone is talking about. Content you post online should be as immutable as possible.

Especially solutions for various software and stuff. I ran into an rare issue with one software last year that I couldn't remember what it is. I saw the error in the log and posted it in Google. There are only one Reddit post in search of this error. The deleted user deleted the comment of the solution, preventing anyone from fixing the issue. That deleted comment have more than 200 child comments for thanking for th…

Yea, I think I will build a plug-in that will automatically quote the comment you reply to and the author just to exactly prevent these kinds of situations.

Re: Show HN: I got tired of reading "This posting has been deleted by its author"

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Post by june07 »

toomanyrichers wrote: post #63
june07 wrote: post #18

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Removed the ads until I can fix the problem you are experiencing. Click on App update available or reload the page again, if you'd be so kind.

Still breaks swipe to go back for me.

Opened an issue for this https://github.com/june07/clippings-frontend/issues/1 if you want to add some additional detail about what you are experiencing on your end...

Re: Show HN: I got tired of reading "This posting has been deleted by its author"

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Post by bee_rider »

AlbertCory wrote: post #84
bee_rider wrote: post #81

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Many Reddit posts were automatically backed up by various services before the recent API changes. https://www.makeuseof.com/how-to-see-deleted-reddit-posts/

But not anymore?

I mean I’m not an expert on how these sites work, but it looks like pushshift.io was collecting Reddit posts before the API access removed.

Posts made after the API access was removed would not be in Pushshift.

Posts made before, are still in Pushshift. Deleting a post from the site doesn’t remove it from Pushshift.

So… kinda not anymore? At least not publicly, using the officially supported API.

Re: Show HN: I got tired of reading "This posting has been deleted by its author"

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Post by guraf »

willsmith72 wrote: post #70
tivert wrote: post #66

I just found out the other day that the official Internet Archive/Wayback Machine extension ( https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/wayback-machine/fp... ) has a mode to automatically archive every page you view. It's pretty neat, and I wish more people would run it to get a more diverse snapshot of stuff into the Wayback machine.

I see they have a private mode, how does this work exactly? How does it make sure it's archiving the home page of my bank's website and not my personal dashboard?

It doesn't share your cookies, that probably stops almost any leak. Then probably rules to filter out legacy ?sessid= ?sID=.

Other than that I imagine it leaks things like /bank/account/id/75795 but the crawler will drop it when it returns a 40X.

Re: Show HN: I got tired of reading "This posting has been deleted by its author"

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Post by AlbertCory »

bee_rider wrote: post #87
AlbertCory wrote: post #84

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But not anymore?

I mean I’m not an expert on how these sites work, but it looks like pushshift.io was collecting Reddit posts before the API access removed. Posts made after the API access was removed would not be in Pushshift. Posts made before, are still in Pushshift. Deleting a post from the site doesn’t remove it from Pushshift. So… kinda not anymore? At least not publicly, using the officially supported API.

Thanks, I'm definitely not saying you can count on something being gone. But you also can't count on being able to recover it.

Re: Show HN: I got tired of reading "This posting has been deleted by its author"

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Post by tivert »

Kye wrote: post #79
willsmith72 wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I see they have a private mode, how does this work exactly? How does it make sure it's archiving the home page of my bank's website and not my personal dashboard?

It probably nudges the crawler to come rather than sending the page. If it's private, the crawler won't be able to see it.

> It probably nudges the crawler to come rather than sending the page. If it's private, the crawler won't be able to see it.

I'm sure that's exactly what it does. It is definitely not archiving some Facebook pages I've been browsing (that I would actually like to archive). It's only been capturing the login screen or an error about abusing the site.

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