The trick with online platforms is to edit messages, replacing the content with a random string (this script supports both ".", a random string or a fixed string of your choosing).

Most web apps will keep a copy of messages you delete, but they usually do not save an history of every modification.

From the repo README's:

> When it became known that post edits were not saved but post deletions were saved, code was added to edit your post prior to deletion. In fact you can actually turn off deletion all together and just have lorem ipsum (or a message about Shreddit) but this will increase how long it takes the script to run as it will be going over all of your messages every run.

OTOH, part of reddit's "value proposition" is as much the content moderation (overzealous removal of comments that some highly opinionated moderator with too much time on their hands happens to disagree with) as it is the content itself - it sounds like Shreddit has a way around the hiding, but if Reddit turned around and undeleted _every_ deleted comment, Reddit would become a very, very different forum (IMHO a better one, but Reddit is what Reddit is).

I think that’d be illegal for EU citizens at least

CCPA Delete Request should actually remove them