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Life & fun · January 17, 2026

Reddit GDPR Export Viewer – Built After Ban, Unban, Reban

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:…

Reddit GDPR Export Viewer – Built After Ban, Unban, Reban launched on January 17, 2026 with 5 votes, #3,400 of 14,584 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches.

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What it does

A modern, standalone offline viewer for your Reddit GDPR data export files. - guilamu/reddit-gdpr-export-viewer

In the maker’s words, at launch

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…

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