ScoreCard and Quantcast beacons

[Karl Seguin]

Today I noticed that disqus loads beacons from scorecard and quantcast. I'm curious whether I can opt out of this on my blog as well as how the data is used?

Cheers,

Karl

[Gabriel Fouasnon]

Hi Karl,

We have always (or for quite some time) loaded beacons from comScore and Quantcast. There was a brief period (until only a day or two ago) in which these were not being loaded in the new Disqus 2012 commenting embed, but it was never our intent to not load them. 

It is vital for our business to have our commenting embed loads recorded by comScore and Quantcast, so it seems doubtful that we would make this opt out. At any rate, I know that it is not on our to do list.

Could you let me know why you want to opt out or why you are concerned about this?

Thanks,

Gabriel

[Anton Kovalyov]

Hey Karl,

To clarify Gab's response: we plan to add support for Do Not Track technology (http://donottrack.us/). This means that although you won't be able to opt out on a per-blog basis, your visitors will be able to opt out by enabling Do Not Track option in their browsers.

Thanks,

Anton

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[Karl Seguin]

Thanks.

Just typical privacy and tracking concern. DDG type stuff..or ghostery. None of your competitors seem to offer a track-free solution either...I was more curious than anything.

Karl

[loupiote]

> It is vital for our business to have our commenting embed loads recorded by comScore

I assume comScore installs the ScroreCard beacon, right?

Why is it "vital to disqus business" to install ScroreCard beacon in pages that use disqus comments?

could you elaborate?

[loupiote]

there is a javascript loaded from the domain 'choices.truste.com' that fires a timer every 0.1 sec.  is that something that disqus loads?

[Ben Vinegar]

Can you tell us where you're seeing this?

I'm pretty sure we don't load anything having to do with TrustE (http://truste.com).

- Ben

Disqus guy

On Sat, Sep 29, 2012 at 5:26 PM, loupiote <loup...@gmail.com> wrote:

there is a javascript loaded from the domain 'choices.truste.com' that fires a timer every 0.1 sec.  is that something that disqus loads?

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