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Simple, they value the discussion capabilities provided by Disqus. Disqus was worth keeping, Adsense was not.
by burntwater 9y ago
Simple, they value the discussion capabilities provided by Disqus. Disqus was worth keeping, Adsense was not.
- spiderfarmer 9y agoThat’s my point exactly. Did they do the same exercise for Disqus? Or did they get all scientific on evaluating Adsense, and go with a “hunch” for Disqus? That’s like saying “Marlboro cigarettes are harmful, here’s proof, let’s grab a pack of Lucky Strikes and discuss”.
- gwern 9y agoIt's more like smoking two brands of cigarettes and then deciding to stop half your smoking; that is surely an improvement... This is just whataboutism. AdSense should be judged on its own merits, and it fails badly: it does nothing I want (aside from delivering quite small amounts of money) at an unacceptable cost. Maybe Disqus is also bad but I would have to ponder how much I want commenting and how to deal with the extant corpus of comments and in any case, at the moment I am gearing up for another ad test to try to figure out what about AdSense is so harmful (and help convince the doubters that there is an effect at all), so I can't test Disqus without complicating things a lot.