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[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

If I was the owner of Reddit, i would 100% save in-progress comments, and keep the unsent ones in the database for my enjoyment.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

If I was the owner of Reddit, i would 100% save in-progress comments, and [...]

sell the data to AI companies

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

sell the data to other humans!
how much would you pay to see all the not sent comments of some account? Pretty sure it would be profitable.

Imagine reading all the tweets that were never sent...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

In all seriousness - I wouldn't because I value people's privacy, but I imagine it'd all be quite lucrative with the data economy being what it is.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

Wasn't that implemented once? Or was that a browser feature? I swear at some point what you typed into input comment boxes was saved.