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The issue with services like Disqus is that even without the advertising (which adds their trackers), Disqus itself is a tracker, the same way Google Analytics
by whatyesaid 6y ago
The issue with services like Disqus is that even without the advertising (which adds their trackers), Disqus itself is a tracker, the same way Google Analytics is.
You can see more details here: https://data.disqus.com/ https://data.disqus.com/
One alternative to Disqus, Commento, suggests that Disqus isn't even GDPR compliant.
- stilisstuk 6y agoA alternative to disquss, good for static websites https://posativ.org/isso/ https://posativ.org/isso/
- deleted 6y ago[deleted]
- distantsounds 6y agoisso is great, it works pretty well though the moderation tools are a bit light.
- yesenadam 6y agoWow, thanks for that, I had no idea. What a sinister page.
- jakejarvis 6y agoCommento is super easy to self-host with Docker, highly recommend it! https://gitlab.com/commento/commento https://gitlab.com/commento/commento
- superkuh 6y agoOr you can run your own website from your own computer and implement your own comment system. For my own I just have a perl script tail my nginx access.log any any URL request that has a /@say/ in it is parsed as a comment. Comment systems don't have to be attack surfaces even if you run them yourself.
- Pr0Ger 6y agoAnother self-hosted alternative to Disqus https://github.com/umputun/remark42 https://github.com/umputun/remark42