• Dettweiler@lemm.ee
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    9 months ago

    The trick is to turn everything into randomized garbage and then delete it later. A lot of those purge services offer that feature. It just swaps the words with others; so on the surface it looks like proper written text, but it makes absolutely no sense.

    Aside from removing your content that they’re profiting from, it also feeds AI scrapers pure garbage in the event that your content is restored.

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      9 months ago

      Yep. I did that over a month to all of my posts and comments, then deleted it all a week later before deleting my account.

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      9 months ago

      Me, I’d prefer to fill it in with fake news. Let them train their bots on ‘taylor swift is an alien psyop trained to infiltrate the highest levels of govt to fulfill the agenda of the radical left instellar warmongering fearlords …’

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      9 months ago

      That’s assuming they update their backups, or that if they do update their backups they don’t keep historical versions.

      IMO once the data has been shared it is no longer safe and there’s nothing we can do.