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I don't track people in the first place on my websites, but third party content is a good point. I generally will self host all of my assets, but occasionally e

I don't track people in the first place on my websites, but third party content is a good point. I generally will self host all of my assets, but occasionally embed a YouTube video or something. I should probably put it behind a click-to-enable thing. I removed Disqus comments from my blog a while ago, too, because a platform for flamewars isn't worth tracking visitors over.

hughw 9y ago
A non-tracking, embeddable comments widget would be a Good Thing. I wonder if anyone would pay $12 a year for that service, and whether that would be enough to support it.
- Sir_Cmpwn 9y ago
  Why? A 12 line open source JavaScript library would do the same thing and wouldn't have to hit up external services in the first place.
  - hughw 9y ago
    Oh off the top of my head: - You have to persist comments right? 12 lines of JS? - You generally want some sort of (cross-site) user management - Spam - Moderation Seems a bit more complex than 12 lines of js. [Edited to add 'cross-site']
    - Sir_Cmpwn 9y ago
      12 lines of JS to display a button that dumps arbitrary HTML into the page when clicked (i.e. the third party widget). But I see now that you were talking about a non-tracking comment engine - my bad. I personally wouldn't pay for such a thing. The current model I have post-Disqus is to have private comments emailed to me and public comments written in the form of blog posts that I'll link to at the bottom of the article.
- myrion 9y ago
  Well, you can use something like Isso, perhaps: https://github.com/posativ/isso https://github.com/posativ/isso
  - hughw 9y ago
    That's pretty good. I guess the idea that you would want cross-site identity is, really, tracking. The only benefit to the user would be some universal name and photo that remains the same across all sites. But that's a really marginal benefit. This isso project gets 98% of usefulness.

hughw 9y ago

A non-tracking, embeddable comments widget would be a Good Thing. I wonder if anyone would pay $12 a year for that service, and whether that would be enough to support it.

Sir_Cmpwn 9y ago
Why? A 12 line open source JavaScript library would do the same thing and wouldn't have to hit up external services in the first place.
- hughw 9y ago
  Oh off the top of my head: - You have to persist comments right? 12 lines of JS? - You generally want some sort of (cross-site) user management - Spam - Moderation Seems a bit more complex than 12 lines of js. [Edited to add 'cross-site']
  - Sir_Cmpwn 9y ago
    12 lines of JS to display a button that dumps arbitrary HTML into the page when clicked (i.e. the third party widget). But I see now that you were talking about a non-tracking comment engine - my bad. I personally wouldn't pay for such a thing. The current model I have post-Disqus is to have private comments emailed to me and public comments written in the form of blog posts that I'll link to at the bottom of the article.
myrion 9y ago
Well, you can use something like Isso, perhaps: https://github.com/posativ/isso https://github.com/posativ/isso
- hughw 9y ago
  That's pretty good. I guess the idea that you would want cross-site identity is, really, tracking. The only benefit to the user would be some universal name and photo that remains the same across all sites. But that's a really marginal benefit. This isso project gets 98% of usefulness.