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Data Report Card · Reddit

Reddit Data Report Card

Reddit account
Data
Practices
2Access2Portability1Friction1Deletion1Sells0Trains AI
=
C
7/12
Agent
Readiness
2Access 2Portability 2API access
=
A
6/6

Agent Readiness is a derived signal — a synthesis of two existing cells (Access, Portability) plus one sourced factor (API access), not an independently measured grade. API access scale: Best (2) consumer-grantable API · Moderate (1) partial / encumbered · Restrictive (0) manual export only. What is Agent Readiness?

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Reviewed Jun 2026  ·  some cells re-verified 9 Aug 2026 · policies are checked weekly for changes  ·  stated — every cell is read from Reddit's published policy; none has been tested (run by us) yet.
2Accessstated
Free self-serve request at reddit.com/settings/data-request with GDPR / CCPA / Other options and selectable date range or full history.
Reddit Help — Request a copy of your data · accessed Jun 2026 ↗
2Portabilitystated
Archive is a ZIP of ~35 structured CSV files (comments, posts, votes, settings, and more), machine-readable.
Reddit Help — Request a copy of your data · accessed Jun 2026 ↗
1Frictionstated
Request-based rather than instant: the link from u/RedditDataRequests typically arrives in hours-to-days but Reddit reserves up to 30 days (45-day statutory window for GDPR/CCPA).
Reddit Help — Request a copy of your data · accessed Jun 2026 ↗
1Deletionstated
Account deletion is self-serve, immediate and permanent with no grace period and no recovery; Reddit may retain some data for legal/business purposes and posts persist anonymized.
Reddit Privacy Policy · accessed Jun 2026 ↗
1Sells / sharesstated
Reddit shares data for advertising; the California ad pixel must respect GPC opt-out signals under CCPA/CPRA, so an opt-out path exists but sharing is the default.
Reddit Privacy Policy · accessed Jun 2026 ↗
0Trains AIstated
Reddit's User Agreement grants Reddit a licence to your content that, in its own words, "includes the right to use Your Content to train AI and machine learning models." The licence is a condition of using the service and no general user opt-out is offered.
Reddit — User Agreement · accessed 9 Aug 2026 ↗
2API access — feeds Agent Readiness, not the /12stated
Reddit's Data API uses OAuth2 and can issue refresh tokens via the authorization-code flow, letting you authorize an app to read your own posts, comments and account history; personal/non-commercial use is free alongside the paid commercial pricing introduced in 2023.
Reddit — OAuth2 API · accessed Jun 2026 ↗
Reddit's free CSV export is strong but immediate-irreversible deletion (no grace period), ad data-sharing, and broad paid content-licensing to AI firms with no user opt-out weigh heavily. Source-verified Jun 2026; all cells stated (read from published policy/support docs), none yet tested via live export.

Events

Breaches, policy changes, and export-format changes we’ve recorded at Reddit — other parties’ actions, alongside the enforcement record above. An event never changes a grade by itself. All events →

No events on record for Reddit.

Grade history

Every change to this company’s grade since it was first published, and why. All grade changes →

9 Aug 2026Trains AI on your datasource

Score unchanged. Re-sourced to Reddit's own User Agreement, which grants a licence that “includes the right to use Your Content to train AI and machine learning models.” The reported deal values in the previous citation were press-only and have been removed rather than re-sourced.

Reddit — User Agreement ↗
Previously: Columbia Journalism Review — Reddit AI licensing

How to request your data from Reddit

  1. Go to https://www.reddit.com/settings/data-request — Reddit's data-request entry point.
  2. reddit.com/settings/data-request.
  3. Expected wait: up to 30 days (statutory window up to 45 days) — Reddit's stated turnaround (we haven't independently timed a request yet).
  4. No self-serve option, or want a formal request? Contact Reddit — Privacy (u/RedditDataRequests): https://support.reddithelp.com/hc/en-us/articles/360043048352-How-do-I-request-a-copy-of-my-Reddit-data-and-information.

These steps reflect Reddit's documented process as of Jun 2026. The wait time is the company's stated figure, not yet independently measured by us.

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