[HN Gopher] Goodreads lost all of my reviews
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Goodreads lost all of my reviews
Author : NelsonMinar
Score : 24 points
Date : 2022-02-28 18:50 UTC (4 hours ago)
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| Ecstatify wrote:
| Goodreads killed their developer api in December 2020. It's
| obvious they've no intention of improving the platform. Hopefully
| someone can come along and provide a better experience.
| NelsonMinar wrote:
| One interesting thing I learned while trying to figure out how
| to recover my data is the Archive Team has a snapshot of
| Goodreads data from December 2020 just before the API was
| killed.
| https://www.reddit.com/r/Archiveteam/comments/mxccfp/the_goo...
| testware wrote:
| Absolutely stupid that when you unlink an account the underlying
| data is silently lost. However due to GDPR and similar laws,
| irrecoverable delete is absolutely a thing. They cannot recover
| your data if it went through the same process of forgetting it as
| they would for GDPR, and there's a good chance the system wrongly
| treats the unlinking of Twitter as a request to forget. If they
| can somehow recover the data for you, they have a flawed
| architecture for forgetting your data, and they will not give
| that up as easily.
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