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I’ve removed Disqus. It was making my blog worse

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Re: I’ve removed Disqus. It was making my blog worse

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Post by potato3732842 »

63stack wrote: post #96
D13Fd wrote: post #91

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Come on. There is a massive difference between an ad that optimistically emphasizes the best aspects of a real product or service and an ad for a fake product or service that will take your money and leave you with essentially nothing.

Yes there is a massive difference, you are correct. Also, most of the ads do not fall into that category.

I remember back in the good old days (so like 2008) you'd visit the some bigco website looking for specs on some item and then later you'd see their products in your banner ads. Times were so simple back then.

Re: I’ve removed Disqus. It was making my blog worse

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Post by tetris11 »

D13Fd wrote: post #91
tcfhgj wrote: post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

almost every ad is a scam, telling lies directly or indirectly maximizing what is within the legal bounds.

Come on. There is a massive difference between an ad that optimistically emphasizes the best aspects of a real product or service and an ad for a fake product or service that will take your money and leave you with essentially nothing.

I think the poster is lamenting the general quality of all advertised products in general. If it's a brand of good quality (Miele, Henry, DeLonghi) it probably does not need to be advertised, as word of mouth and price point is generally enough.

Re: I’ve removed Disqus. It was making my blog worse

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Post by blakesterz »

loloquwowndueo wrote: post #54

I’m in the process of converting a Wordpress blog to a static site. We did have significant comment traffic back in the day so I did look into how to maintain comment functionality. I found Comentario https://docs.comentario.app/en/ which is a standalone comments engine that can be self-hosted and linked to the blog page. Single stand alone Go executable, SQLite database - seems dead simple and has built-in ways to m…

What are you using to convert Wordpress to static pages?

Re: I’ve removed Disqus. It was making my blog worse

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Post by niutech »

MasterScrat wrote: post #5

I think the concern of "blog comments" is best left to external platforms eg HN, Reddit etc What would be more useful would be an automated list of places where the post has been discussed (and maybe pull the top comments from there through API?)

There used to be discu.eu: https://web.archive.org/web/20250523181311/https://discu.eu/

Re: I’ve removed Disqus. It was making my blog worse

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Post by jrmg »

lupusreal wrote: post #70
mrweasel wrote: post #63

Other than the volume, one of the issues I have with these types of ads is that you're rarely able to report them as scams. Reddit have a similar issue. You can report an ad, but you have to pick "Other", there's no: "This ad is clearly a scam". That's by design obviously, because by removing the scams, most of the ad networks are left with very little inventory. Certainly not enough to fund all the ad supported serv…

The ad industry likes to say that their industry is clean and the people who buy ads for scams are the problem, but the truth is the entire industry is complicit with the scamming, and stuff like this shows it. If the ad industry were merely hapless victims of the scammers, rather than willful participants in the scamming, they'd be eager to receive reports of scams.

For me, almost every YouTube ad is a scam.

Medical supplements or plans that make claims that clearly aren’t real, financial scams (crypto or get-rich-quick schemes), or product scams (this new device that ‘they’ don’t want you to know about can heat/cool your house in minutes for pennies!).

I’m pretty sure none of this is legal, and Google obviously doesn’t care.

FWIW I have ad personalization off - perhaps it’s a bit better for those who don’t?

Re: I’ve removed Disqus. It was making my blog worse

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Post by DelightOne »

lupusreal wrote: post #70
mrweasel wrote: post #63

Other than the volume, one of the issues I have with these types of ads is that you're rarely able to report them as scams. Reddit have a similar issue. You can report an ad, but you have to pick "Other", there's no: "This ad is clearly a scam". That's by design obviously, because by removing the scams, most of the ad networks are left with very little inventory. Certainly not enough to fund all the ad supported serv…

The ad industry likes to say that their industry is clean and the people who buy ads for scams are the problem, but the truth is the entire industry is complicit with the scamming, and stuff like this shows it. If the ad industry were merely hapless victims of the scammers, rather than willful participants in the scamming, they'd be eager to receive reports of scams.

I bet they tried an llm scam detector. It was too good so they didn't put it into production.

Re: I’ve removed Disqus. It was making my blog worse

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Post by firesteelrain »

est wrote: post #6

I ditched Disqus for the exact same reason, too many ads Then I built an alternative using free Cloudflare Worker https://github.com/est/req4cmt It's a simple service that transform comment POST form data to JSON, append to a .jsonl file, then do a `git push` It renders comments by `git fetch` from a .jsonl file from a remote repo, or simply via raw.githubusercontent.com if your repo was hosted by Github. The advanta…

I have done something similar with API Gateway, Lambda and DynamoDB. It is very cheap and doesn’t use Git.
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