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It really seems like everything reddit is doing is rushed and always chooses to harm the users as a default. It’s as if they’re actively sabotaging their own platform.
My guess is that they saw they screwed up, and His Heinous Spez decided to tell everyone “in for a penny in for a pound, any other bandaids we’d like to rip off?”… Thus this type of anti-user moves.
It really seems like everything reddit is doing is rushed and always chooses to harm the users as a default. It’s as if they’re actively sabotaging their own platform.
They don’t want users to be able to wipe their own chats manually or via GDPR requests.
If anyone asks, they will be told that the data is gone, but we all know that’s not the case. They do have backups.
My guess is that they saw they screwed up, and His Heinous Spez decided to tell everyone “in for a penny in for a pound, any other bandaids we’d like to rip off?”… Thus this type of anti-user moves.
Every decision they’ve made in the recent past, they have went with the worst possibly option available. Repeatedly.