Analyst and Big Data, Zeta Global announced last night that he got her platform Disqus commenting.
The Disqus service is well known to webmasters as it provides a handy tool for guest comments. This is a system that administrators can integrate into their pages. Disqus offers analysis, monetization and other services beyond the feedback system.
The data are stored on Disqus servers and the company has been criticized several times for its user tracking activities. The company suffered two major security breaches, one in 2013 and another in October of 2017, that someone managed to obtain a portion of the database containing 17,5 million email addresses post officeusers, login dates and registration dates according to Disqus.
Of course, Disqus mentions in the announcement exmarket that nothing will change for users or publishers using the service.
But nevertheless the famous commentary company becomes a business unit of Zeta Global enviroment, and the data it has and collects every minute is very important for a giant like ZG.
Thus, there are several reasons for stopping using the service. One of the biggest concerns is what will happen to user data stored on third-party servers. This time, however, it is not only Disqus who can exploit the data, but also a larger company specializing in the collection and analysis of Big Data.
So lack of control is another important reason to start storing our data locally.
It is clear that Zeta Global is interested in the data accumulated by Disqus in recent years and continues to accumulate.
The press release states that 7% of the top 1000 sites use the Disqus service.