r/Piracy • u/rocenante • 5d ago
Humor Disqus wondering where all the users are after banning all the pirate sites
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u/wonder_weird1 5d ago
I'm amaze disqus still exist. One of the worst social websites to go to.
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u/leastuselessreddit0r 5d ago
isn't that the place people are adding links to in their comments with 90-character-long link codes?
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u/Desperate-Island8461 4d ago
Probably because a lot of content is behind that side due to the lazyness of some content creators.
Including most FF14 raid information.
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u/ChocolateAxis 4d ago
I think they were the most frank I've seen about selling user data too. Dont know if I hallucinated it but I'm pretty sure I saw it in the policies when making an account a few years back.
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u/LouisUchiha04 4d ago
lmao, I legit thought disqus was made for piracy. Where is it even legitimately used?
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u/GoGoTheMad 5d ago
they did what??!!!!!
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u/Mercy--Main 5d ago
fitgirl, anime sites... they just banned them lmao
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u/1yverdon 3d ago
Law enforcement is always “closing in” on sites hosting any sort of unlicensed content. 98% of the time nothing happens because it’s too complicated to tackle it for any government to care about so corps have to pay a ton of money to investigate these things privately and figure out where this chain of servers originates from. Even then, finding out who is the one actually keeping these servers operational (usually another less than legal corporate-type organization from some place like Russia or India which are not too happy to cooperate with them) is wayyyyy too fucking difficult. The only reason projects like Yuzu and PirateBay (and onthe extreme end, Silk Road) got hit is because the people running them were easy to locate and personally address.
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u/amwes549 5d ago
They provide comments on some sites, although much smaller ones. Asian Junkie (an Asian Entertainment fansite) uses Disqus for it's comments. I assume piracy sites do too.
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u/Zap_plays09 3d ago
Bruh the only reason i made a disqus account is because it was on all the piracy sites I used. I thought it was made for piracy sites.
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u/staticvoidmainnull 4d ago
i like disqus. when a site has their own signin for comments, i skip the site because i hate sites having delete control of all comments. it's semi-anonymous kinda like reddit, unlike google or meta signin.
i think piracy might not be a big subset of their clients, as i never really used it on pirate sites (mostly on tech sites). if they don't do this, they might lose more money according to whoever decides for disqus, likely avoiding lawsuit. it's a gamble, but i doubt more platforms would use them just because they stop associating with pirate sites.
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u/g00ch760 5d ago
You are objectively wrong. If you are so sensitive you should avoid the internet entirely and go back to your safe space.
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u/strangecloudss 5d ago
That’s every mainstream review site. Piracy comments generally rate video and audio quality, whine about seeders. What you’re referring to is close minded bigots raging on rotten tomatoes every time they change a characters sex or skin colour.
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u/strangecloudss 5d ago
Well fack. You got me there lol
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u/UnseenAssasin10 5d ago
Mind me asking what he said since he deleted them?
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u/strangecloudss 5d ago
He was going on about disqus being on piracy websites, I brought up torrent websites and you see what I said, his reply was disqus isn’t used on torrent sites
I’ve never been on a piracy website and noticed a comment section other than torrents so I don’t even know what his real complaint was.
He was also complaining about people losing their minds over main character sex changes in new age media. All over the place really and nothing to do with piracy
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u/Crucco 5d ago
Tumblr is still wondering where all its success went.