<story><title>Show HN: Redact – Automated deletion for your content on social networks</title><url>https://redact.dev/?hn</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>aboringusername</author><text>If there are any Redact devs here:&lt;p&gt;Please add a feature to &amp;#x27;edit&amp;#x27; messages with random data rather than redact. This has the advantage of not only updating the &amp;#x27;live&amp;#x27; database but also if it&amp;#x27;s backed up in the future they&amp;#x27;ll only have the garbage data and not what you actually said.&lt;p&gt;Being able to overwrite history (where possible) is extremely valuable that reddit&amp;#x2F;discord let you do.&lt;p&gt;Additionally, there should be a &amp;#x27;spoofer&amp;#x27; mode, that randomly makes comments, uploads multi GB files full of random data and adds noise to further enhance privacy.&lt;p&gt;I take great joy in &amp;quot;abusing&amp;quot; text areas and file upload boxes on the internet - it makes it significantly harder to track a subject in any way when you are making 1000 comments a day, uploading 10,000 photos you found randomly online and are joining 50 different channels ;)&lt;p&gt;To be honest I should probably make a script to do that, especially on HN...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>slg</author><text>Maybe I am alone on this, but it seems pretty unethical and selfish to &amp;quot;abuse&amp;quot; these systems and intentionally upload large amounts of garbage data in order to improve your own personal privacy.  It is the equivalent of polluting.  Feel free to overwrite and delete your comments to protect privacy, but users uploading &amp;quot;multi GB files full of random data&amp;quot; is putting a real burden on other people and is going to lead to a worse service for everyone.</text></comment>
<story><title>Show HN: Redact – Automated deletion for your content on social networks</title><url>https://redact.dev/?hn</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>aboringusername</author><text>If there are any Redact devs here:&lt;p&gt;Please add a feature to &amp;#x27;edit&amp;#x27; messages with random data rather than redact. This has the advantage of not only updating the &amp;#x27;live&amp;#x27; database but also if it&amp;#x27;s backed up in the future they&amp;#x27;ll only have the garbage data and not what you actually said.&lt;p&gt;Being able to overwrite history (where possible) is extremely valuable that reddit&amp;#x2F;discord let you do.&lt;p&gt;Additionally, there should be a &amp;#x27;spoofer&amp;#x27; mode, that randomly makes comments, uploads multi GB files full of random data and adds noise to further enhance privacy.&lt;p&gt;I take great joy in &amp;quot;abusing&amp;quot; text areas and file upload boxes on the internet - it makes it significantly harder to track a subject in any way when you are making 1000 comments a day, uploading 10,000 photos you found randomly online and are joining 50 different channels ;)&lt;p&gt;To be honest I should probably make a script to do that, especially on HN...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>throwkeep</author><text>Are they actually overwriting history though? Or are they just adding another record, and hiding the previous version(s)?</text></comment>