Notes from my Reddit Account Deletion saga: Well, after my Reddit permaban incident I went and deleted my Reddit account. https://infosec.exchange/@emresaglam/110403705605351765
After deleting my account I also went and did a California Consumer Privacy Act request. Their process was to authenticate and do the CCPA request over this web form. http://www.reddit.com/settings/data-request
Since I already deleted my account, there was no way for me to do the CCPA request and I ended up contacting them.
Reddit ended up reactivating my account and they made me go through the web form. This takes 30 days and in the end I should have a link that I can download the data that they know about me. I might do another update. (The process was smooth, kudos to Reddit)
In the mean while, I went and deleted everything I can in my account. These include: Posts, Comments, Messages, Friends (sorry). (Since I was suspended for no reason, I couldn’t change up/down votes.) I used Power Delete Suite Bookmarklet for this: https://github.com/j0be/PowerDeleteSuite
Since I wrote the request anyway, I also created a CCPA and GDPR request template for anyone to use, you can see it here. If you are a California or EU citizen feel free to use them. https://github.com/emresaglam/CCPA-GDPR_request_letter
I was worried that I would miss Reddit, but I didn't. This was probably the most pleasantly surprising part of getting rid of Reddit :)