• Transporter Room 3@startrek.website
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    8 months ago

    So I finally managed to figure it out and let the gdpr run for 3 days.

    After day 1 I figured out without the gdpr folder, you can only delete a certain amount, 100 I think.

    The rate limit is also set to 30/min (sleep 2s between actions) so I managed to get two instances running at once without hitting the limit.

    One gdpr deleting from 2010 onward, one with an auto-typer hitting f3+enter ever 2 minutes 21 seconds to delete from 2023 backward.

    Took another 2 days but I managed to delete my old profile. Googling will bring up a few archived posts on other websites, and name mentions but no posts, and the random sampling I did showed nothing when I tried checking on the individual comments.

    So it took me a bit to figure out, but I managed.

    They definitely assume people have a certain level of knowledge of things when doing the documentation, but luckily it’s easy to find information.

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      8 months ago

      Cool, you managed to get it working after all. I never used Power Shell before this either.
      It’s ridiculous the average user has to jump through all these hoops just to regain control of their own data.

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        8 months ago

        Hey maybe someday there will be a website that just allows you to delete everything they have on you at any time for any reason with only a few clicks and no input on their side…

        I can dream!