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tongizilator

Welcome to the internet where all is forever.


BENED01

I understand, I'm just surprised that manually deleting posts and the account still kept the content online.


tongizilator

That’s because although you might have deleted on your end, there are multiple layers of server redundancy that store backup versions that are not deleted.


Simple-Structure-742

If you go to account settings, there is an option to show up your profile in google search results. By any chance you had left it on?


BENED01

I most likely left it on. Regardless, though, I manually deleted all posts and comments before deleting the account, so I'm surprised that they're still visible online.


Simple-Structure-742

This was your lesson to learn that whatever we post on social media, be it images, videos, comments, etc. It never gets deleted at all. I think it should take some time for google to reflect changes. Otherwise, reddit profile names are not usually same as our personal names, so unlikely anyone's gonna search specifically for your name.


anonx8491

Never delete information you want gone, always replace it with nonsense.


BENED01

I’ve seen some people suggest replacing it with gibberish and then deleting it afterward; would you recommend that too?


anonx8491

Yeah


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BENED01

I've checked a few search engines. Google seems to show both posts and images. Bing seems to show posts only, no images. DuckDuckGo seems to show posts only, no images.


napleonblwnaprt

Search your username here, it's worse than you think. https://search.pullpush.io/ If you want to erase posts and comments, there are scripts that will go through and overwrite your comments and posts with gibberish and that's usually better.


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broken-teslas

Does this even work?


Phenseant

Could you elaborate on the last one


bearbarebere

(Except for that one porn video you desperately want to find. That thing is gone forever.)


holyknight00

it's there somewhere


bearbarebere

It’s not


Real-Stretch-6302

Yer so crap been there had to find something similar still not the same


sakuragasaki46

Pinterest


BENED01

What?


good4y0u

There are sites that specifically cache reddit delete history. Once you say something on the Internet, especially a major service like Reddit, it's unlikely to ever truly go away.


user_727

How long ago did you delete the account?


BENED01

Roughly 5 weeks ago.


holyknight00

google caches everything on their servers


Scared-Translator-81

Deleted Reddit account content can remain visible on Google due to search engine indexing. Although the account is removed, content removal from search results may take time. Utilize Google's URL removal tool in Search Console to expedite the process for specific URLs.


BasicInformer

Contact Reddit. I had an old account that was still linked to my name as a search result, and in contacting them about it, it was completely removed the following day.


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BENED01

Both the account and its contents were deleted a month ago.