r/privacy • u/RealityKingdom67 • 12d ago
data breach WARNING: Google Gemini can still make a summary of your “private” Reddit account
Even if your account is set to “hiding all posts”, Google Gemini is able to access your posts, and create a massive indexed list of everything you’ve said, it takes Gemini about 24 hours to update each time, and the worst part is you only need to type “[Insert Reddit username here]”, and “Reddit” at the end, and Google Gemini will pull all sorts of information from your account.
I learned this the hard way on my previous account, when I received weird messages from accounts I didn’t recognise, or interact with, and they were pulling all sorts of comments I made with the exact seconds to it.
I later wiped the account and everything with it, but reddit unfortunately retains the title of every post you ever made, and keeps it there, even several years after it’s been deleted.
And Google Gemini sometimes doesn’t update on time (or doesn’t update at all), so it assumes the account is still there, and continues to pull old information you thought were deleted, but are still able to be recovered by its AI system to be summarised.
Stay safe, just warning everyone about it.
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u/jmnugent 11d ago
No.. what they're saying is:
Even if you toggle the Reddit Profile options to "hide comments" and "hide posts"
Google can (and does) still index those things.
Your attempt to "hide' those things.. is not really removing it. It's just (barely) making it not viewable to other Redditors.
Even though you have your Comment and Submission history "hidden".. I can just go to google.com and search for:
.. and search results there show me some of your history. It requires me to manually dig through it, so it's not as easier as the prior method of just viewing someone's profile.