• Brinkmann: Disqus commenting platform sold to big data and analytics firm Zeta Global

    Posted on December 14, 2017 at 07:54 CST by • Comment in the Forums

    Big news for folks who post comments using Disqus. Says Brinkmann on ghacks:

    Big data and analytics company Zeta Global announced that it has acquired the commenting platform Disqus. The company suffered two major security breaches, one in 2013 and another in October 2017. A snapshot of a database containing 17.5 million user email addresses, login dates and sign-up dates was copied according to Disqus in the latest breach.

    Wow. 4 million web sites. 2 billion monthly unique users. And now it’s part of a data harvesting company.

    Our little home-grown and hand-operated commenting system here on AskWoody may not have all the bells and whistles, but I’d put it up against Disqus any day.

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