That's because google is scraping comment threads, not user profiles.
But in any case? Good. Reddit allowing people to hide public profiles is bad. It has made it easier to troll, to astrotrurf and abuse people on there.
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Yep. Benefits hostile actors far more than any user.
I've just checked. Even if you've deleted your profile on Reddit, the search still identifies your posts. I don't really care as I've left the platform but I was mildly surprised.
This is why that comment anonymizer is a thing. It edits your comments & scrambles everything to gobbledygook so even if you didn't delete the account it's illegible. I guess maybe someone could still find a specific page and go back on the Wayback Machine to see what you originally wrote?
That feels like a lot of work for a comment that says "this"
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Possibly, yes. But the page would have needed to have been archived, and not everything has been. For a random subreddit that isn't massively popular? I dunno.
Welcome to the internet, circa 1983.
"Ok ChatGPT, now you'll implement a new feature, add privacy option to hide profiles content" - Someone at Reddit
People are mentioning trolls, but hiding post history is a huge boon to scammers & bots too, which reddit is full of.