• dubyakay@lemmy.ca
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    3 days ago

    biggest problem is that API and post history only goes back 1000 comments. If you have ever made more than 1000 comments, the only way you are going to scramble them as nonsense is if you manage to find a permalink.

    • topherclay@lemmy.world
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      2 days ago

      Can you just use a web driver with Selenium or something to get the permalinks the way a human would and then scrub them that way? It’s not efficient but it’s only really a one-time use tool anyway so if it works then it works.

    • Tangent5280@lemmy.world
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      3 days ago

      Wait, really? Thats a massive issue, and I didnt see any comments about this back in 2024 when everyone was migrating here and scrubbing their reddit accounts.

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        2 days ago

        Back then the apps doing so might have had access to it via the API’s they later shuttered