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Yes, but you are mistaken if you think your data is safe on closed platforms.
If you post it on the internet, you have to assume it's gonna be there forever.
*laughs in private tracker community
Plenty of trackers have gone down and taken their entire history with them. when baconBits shut down, the admins toyed with the idea of having a backup of the forums for some people who wanted it, but that never happened. Maybe it lives on inside some hard drive squirreled away somewhere, but since the forums were private and only accessible to members, they were never scraped and any history of them officially doesn't exist.
I believe the point is, once some data is publicly available, even if you try to delete it, you can never be sure all copies are truly gone. Like you said, maybe it lives on somebody's hard drive, maybe some other user managed to scrape it for their own personal use, maybe they screenshotted the most compromising posts, etc. You can never be sure it's gone.