The script works fine. What actually happened was that some subreddits were in blackout mode and therefore the comments were invisible but not yet deleted. When they returned the comments became visible again. Anything the script missed was because of the comments temporarily not being visible from the API. Simply running the script again was all that was needed once subreddits returned. My comments have stayed deleted after that.

I wrote with reddit support asking them to not restore my content and asking them to confirm this on writing. If I ever find any of my content I'll definetelly report them to my local data authorities and I told them I'd do so when writing with them

That scrubber should spread the work over weeks or months. It’s easy for Reddit to detect a mass edit or deletion when it’s all done on the same day. And if you only want to edit the posts probably better to not use the same text twice. Use ChatGPT to create variations.

I guess I’m not important enough but I used a scrubber to replace all my messages to say I was going to Lemmy after all the recent changes to Reddit and last time I checked recently they were still edited. Maybe it helps I didn’t actually delete my account? I just edited all my comments and stopped interacting with Reddit completely.

I did it but left a few select support subreddits out of it, I just checked (thanks to you, thanks btw) and it seems my shit is still deleted, though I found out there's at least one subreddit that logged comments as posts citing the usernames they're from, seemingly for scraping and data aggregation purposes, since they're without any context other than the title post and subreddit they're from.

Seems to be dead for at least three years, but it's still creepy.

Btw I'm certain there are many backups existing somewhere, maybe not public accessible but there must be