Why you should remove Disqus from your site

Marko Saric wrote down a few reasons, why you should remove Disqus from your website:

Embedding Disqus makes your site slow

Disqus tracks your visitors and shows ads

Disqus inserts its own affiliate links in comments and content (for example when you mention Amazon, it inserts an affiliate link to Amazon, to get a referral fee with every purchase)

It’s not possible to entirely disable advertising without paying for the premium plan of $10/month, but there are some settings that can make things a bit better.

There’s a privacy friendly alternative called Commento, if you really need comments.

I removed Disqus long time ago, first replaced it with a GitHub-based solution, but in the end decided to completely remove comments. Comments are a spam-destination and I don’t want to waste time moderating that. People can either send a webmention to my posts or send me an email.

https://markosaric.com/remove-disqus/

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