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A comment on Disqus comments adding third-party ad-tracking. Parent comment

Re:Disqus comments adding third-party ad-tracking by franciscop on Tuesday September 26, 2017 @03:47AM (#15336913)
Following that logic any non-open-source comment platform would be another disqus.
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Re:Disqus comments adding third-party ad-tracking by icebraining on Tuesday September 26, 2017 @04:48AM (#15337157)
Yes, that's exactly what it means.
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Re:Disqus comments adding third-party ad-tracking by TeMPOraL on Tuesday September 26, 2017 @06:00AM (#15337409)
Still, I would say the problem isn't open source or not, it's the SaaS model. SaaS is the ultimate closed source, because you have no way (nor right) to tell what the service is doing with your data.
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Re:Disqus comments adding third-party ad-tracking by franciscop on Tuesday September 26, 2017 @09:16AM (#15338329)
Are facebook comments "just another disqus" then?
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Re:Disqus comments adding third-party ad-tracking by icebraining on Tuesday September 26, 2017 @01:25PM (#15340747)
In the sense that is under discussion, yes.
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