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It’s used by many web sites for comments:
Yes. Long time ago I used it a fair bit. I’ve three user account profiles on it.
Human, who sports only naturally-occurring DNA ~ oneironaut ~ broadcaster
I haven’t looked into it. I’d surmise that Google’s arrogant hegemony has combined with Disqus’s aspirations to weasel out their market share have created that scenario. A few years back I took all of my important data away from Google. When I wrote that I’ve three Disqus accounts, my understanding is that I would sign into its own site. But someone will know the answer to your line of questions.
Human, who sports only naturally-occurring DNA ~ oneironaut ~ broadcaster
Go to the following part of the link provided by @b: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disqus#Criticism,_privacy,_and_security_concerns
The first sentence of that part claims that Disqus serves its content up through widgets. Perhaps you visited a site that uses Disqus and that site surreptitiously installed one of these in Chrome? A thorough scan with your anti-crapware solution might just ferret it out and uninstall it for you.
An alternative (if you haven’t done so already) would be to go looking through the myriad of settings in Chrome to see if one of the recent updates added built-in Disqus functionality to your copy of Chrome, in which case I’d expect that there’d be a way to turn it off or disable it from within the settings UI.
The first sentence of that part claims that Disqus serves its content up through widgets. Perhaps you visited a site that uses Disqus and that site surreptitiously installed one of these in Chrome? A thorough scan with your anti-crapware solution might just ferret it out and uninstall it for you.
An alternative (if you haven’t done so already) would be to go looking through the myriad of settings in Chrome to see if one of the recent updates added built-in Disqus functionality to your copy of Chrome, in which case I’d expect that there’d be a way to turn it off or disable it from within the settings UI.
Web widgets are installed on a web site, not a user’s computer or browser:
Install Disqus. How you install Disqus will depend upon the website platform you use.
Serious question. Why do people supposedly like Disqus? One of my server providers moved to it years ago and basically dropped their forum. To me, it was somewhat confusing and stunk. Haven’t been there in years and have no plans to go back.
Good question but in my case, I have no use for it anyway since I don’t do any social media etc. It bothers me that it showed up unexpectedly on trying to sign in to gmail.
Don't take yourself so seriously, no one else does 🙂
All W10 Pro at 22H2,(2 Desktops, 1 Laptop).
After reading other replies here, and your own reply indicating that Malwarebytes turned up nothing, I’m inclined to believe that perhaps you caught Google in the middle of a test that they thought wasn’t “public” yet, but had been accidentally made “public” by an errant setting.
Per @b ‘s quoted statement, web widgets are installed on a site, not in one’s browser, so that coupled with what you saw, makes me think that there was a setting that was misapplied on their site when you went to login to GMail that one time.
I’ve checked with some folks I know who literally “live” on Google and their web-based products (yes, they use them that much), and none of them has been prompted to login to Disqus when they’ve tried logging into one of Google’s web-based services.
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