Hacker News Reader

I don't know about singular posts, but if you wish to delete your account and all your data, they must comply.

They only need to delete personally identifying data. That means they could probably just remove the username from your post, but leave the post text there attributed to "anon".

They already do this, the username becomes "[deleted]"

What about the third parties that Reddit has already sold the data to? Does GDPR require Reddit to chase them down and make them delete it as well?

yes, and if they cannot, they are violating the GDPR and have to pay fines.

This is why datasets are rarely sold as massive CSV's in the modern world - instead companies with data sell access to API's, with the expectation you'll query for what you need in real time.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com