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Show HN: Reddit GDPR Export Viewer – Built After Getting Hacked, Reinstated, Then Banned Again

A few months ago, I posted here about getting my 10-year Reddit account hacked despite 2FA: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45484294

The likely culprit: session cookie theft via a malicious browser extension, possibly linked to the ShadyPanda campaign that infected 4.3M browsers.

Reddit eventually reinstated my account with zero explanation. Then, exactly one month later, they banned me again – permanently, with no reason given and no appeal process.

This drove home a lesson: platforms can and will revoke your access arbitrarily, taking years of contributions with them. So I requested my GDPR data export. What I received was not really usable: raw CSV files with no way to meaningfully browse a decade of comments, posts, and activity.

So I built this: https://github.com/guilamu/reddit-gdpr-export-viewer

It's a pure client-side viewer – zero backend, your data never leaves your machine. Open the HTML file, load your Reddit export, and browse your history offline.

Full disclosure: I've been vibe coding with Claude Opus for the past few weeks, creating mostly Gravity Forms and WordPress extensions for work (18 repos so far). This particular project was knocked out in a couple of hours. I don't have a strong technical background, so this might be pretty badly coded. It works for what I needed, though. If you find issues or have suggestions for improvements, PRs are welcome.