Many Redditors were caught off guard by the removal of their chat and message history.

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  • cloudless@feddit.ukEnglish
    15·
    1 year ago

    Text takes very little space, so I don’t think it is mainly about storage costs.

    I think they just want to save the data migration costs.

    • vzq@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      72·
      1 year ago

      They want to sell it to AI companies, so they need to make sure they can’t scrape it.

      • kereshnull@infosec.pubEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        You cannot sell active data without explicit consent but what if data that has been “deleted” accidentally gets shared with a 3rd party 🙈