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> How is everything now free? Disqus’ business now centers around new advertising built on top of content discovery. I appreciate they needed a business model
by da_n 13y ago
> How is everything now free? Disqus’ business now centers around new advertising built on top of content discovery.
I appreciate they needed a business model but when they launched this it was auto opt-in and enabled by default. I had dozens of clients email me complaining about 'weird ads' appearing on their sites, all mostly completely unrelated to what they had written or their site category etc (some of the clients who were female even complained about links to lad-mag style content, pictures of busty women etc, they were very offended). It felt like a really dirty trick and I have since migrated all Disqus installs to other solutions, mostly self-hosted comments. I would be very wary to trust them again given their history.
- danielha 13y agoSorry about that. We made some mistakes when rolling out from scratch and did some things that I'd be more careful about now. There was no malice intended and hope that you'll take another look in the future.
- da_n 13y agoThanks for responding, it is good to hear you recognised there were some mistakes and it has changed how you will do things going forward. I appreciate that you needed to explore revenue models and believe you when you say no malice was intended, I always thought of you as a good company. Unfortunately at the time I couldn't give definitive answers to my clients about if such a thing would occur again, so took the decision to just play it safe and remove Disqus. I will certainly reconsider Disqus again in future hearing these words from you however. Cheers. Edit: oh and nice website redesign by the way!