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This tracking stuff is a plaque and I'm part of the problem. I run an unpopular site with random bits of information on it that uses AdSense to give me a few bucks a month and Disqus to allow comments.

Uhg. I really need to think about whether I want to be part of the problem.

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somebody in the other thread mentioned https://www.discourse.org/ as an open-source alternative to disqus, although there were some people that downvoted it, so I don't know how good it is.

Discourse is primarily a better alternative to bulletin-board style forums. Here's their docs on embedding, which seems like it would make it act a little more like disqus. https://meta.discourse.org/t/embedding-discourse-comments-vi...

Note that a major difference is that you apparently have to go into the forum page to leave a comment, you can't do it from the page you're discussing.

Disqus = paste some markup in your page and done

Discourse = set up at least a 2gig server then figure out how to integrate with your site.

On that level they aren't really comparible.