I was sympathetic to this change if only because I regard it as better for privacy that removed and deleted comments stay that way, it’s annoying that if you deleted something there was an ability to see it again. Most of the time it was used for drama and shit-stirring, although I will admit it’s a shame to lose some important threads that were removed. Also they would never have backtracked on this part because I am pretty sure it’s been a long-standing issue with GDPR in the EU and finally came to bite them.
They’re still gonna frequently be in caches like Google’s or Archive.org. Just much less predictable when those will cache, so sometimes they may have your comments and other times they saved the page too soon or late. It’s best to assume that once on the internet, it’ll be almost impossible to fully remove, as there’s too many services that cache websites.
