Disqus bait and switch, now with ads

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Post by stakent » Thu, Feb 14, 2013, 4:13 PM UTC

Disqus bait and switch, now with ads
jacquesmattheij.com

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Feb 14, 2013, 4:22 PM UTC

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Post by lucisferre » Thu, Feb 14, 2013, 4:23 PM UTC

Just checked my site and no ads so I'm not sure. Perhaps they are a/b testing this?

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Post by j_s » Thu, Feb 14, 2013, 4:23 PM UTC

Somehow Ghostery saw this coming a long time ago... it seems like anything running across multiple sites turns to advertising for revenue eventually!

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Post by Pezmc » Thu, Feb 14, 2013, 4:24 PM UTC

Does anyone have a link to a site that's currently showing these adverts? I can't find any with ad's showing

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Post by raphinou » Thu, Feb 14, 2013, 4:24 PM UTC

This is why I never even thought about using disqus. No comments anymore in the blog, and old comments lost? Not good...

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Post by jacquesm » Thu, Feb 14, 2013, 4:26 PM UTC

Pezmc wrote: post #5

Does anyone have a link to a site that's currently showing these adverts? I can't find any with ad's showing

I can re-enable the plug-in and make a snapshot, let me do that.

edit: done, snapshot added to the post, you probably will have to do a shift-f5 to see the update.

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Post by k3n » Thu, Feb 14, 2013, 4:26 PM UTC

I have an aversion to hosting 3rd-party functionality on my sites for this very reason.

They do not work for you, they do not answer to you, and their motives are usually quite different than yours.

Thus, don't be surprised when they act to satisfy those motives in ways that you may not entirely agree with.

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Post by danso » Thu, Feb 14, 2013, 4:26 PM UTC

So this has been going on earlier than December, at least as early as October, according to this Disqus blog post (which says they started it in August):

http://blog.disqus.com/post/32684337804/expanding-promoted-d...

So how sure is the OP that he didn't just miss the emails/announcements about it? That said, yes, those links are kind of annoying (especially when unstyled) and can clash with the content.

As much as I want to switch my blog to Octopress, at least I can have a commenting system through Wordpress.

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Post by jrs235 » Thu, Feb 14, 2013, 4:27 PM UTC

"If you aren't paying for the product/service then you are the product/service being sold."

EDIT: Wow. Why the downvotes?

Do people still not understand this saying? I understand it hurts if/when you get burned but it shouldn't come as a surprise when free services change to something less desirable to monetize their business models. I wouldn't be surprised if they soon offer paid "premium" accounts that don't show ads.