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I almost did this, there are a couple around (remarkbox.com for example). What I contemplated, as a way to circumvent ad blocking, was to offer a "white label"

I almost did this, there are a couple around (remarkbox.com for example). What I contemplated, as a way to circumvent ad blocking, was to offer a "white label" service, so the user could configure "comments.mysite.com" with a CNAME to point to www.hostedcomments.com so the comments would appear to be hosted by the same domain. I guess that would fool most ad blockers, and users would have to blacklist the "comments.mysite.com" on an individual basis. Seems kind of shady to me. Have you considered this?

SomeStupidPoint 9y ago
Two points: There's nothing wrong with using the CNAME if you're only serving comments off that domain. Also, I'm pretty sure you can regex adblocking DNS entries, so you could block on comments.. pretty easily with minimal casualties. You'd have to intentionally randomize it to bypass adblockers... Which will probably get your domain listed as a badhost by most peers. (Smarter adblockers would check for CNAMEs and IP blocks, but let's not ecalate the arms race for no reason.)