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I block third-party cookies, and as a result I never see a Disqus comment. I've found that if I don't allow Disqus to set a cookie their JavaScript widget just spins ineffectively.

I wonder if the new Disqus will stop requiring me to send them a tracking cookie in order to read the comments. (I accept the need to identify myself if and when I want to post. But it would be nice to be able to visit a web site with Disqus installed without that visit going into my permanent record next to my name.)

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Not only do we not require you to set third-party cookies to read comments (we never did afaik), the new version also allows all users - regardless of cookie settings - to comment. It just won't remember your session between page refreshes.

Very good, thanks. I was certainly hoping that I had misdiagnosed this problem, and apparently I did.

I'll follow the suggestions of the other commenters and suspect the Do Not Track plugin. I guess the fact that my problems go away when I whitelist Disqus cookies is some sort of crazy side effect of my crazy toolchain.

Would you do me a favor, go check out the volokh conspiracy. In Chrome with adblock plus off, but disconnect on, no comments can be seen. Disconnect seems to find a google tracker that it blocks (but provides no other information on.)

Thanks.

I block third party cookies and can read Disqus comments. It seems to be working exactly as you suggest because it warns me "Warning: A browser setting is preventing you from logging in. Fix this setting to log in". Unfortunately, adding an exception for disqus.com doesn't fix that in Firefox 13.

Disqus can also be blocked by NoScript, Ghostery and similar/equivalent addons or plugins so maybe that's the reason, not third party cookies.

Heh. I deliberately block all disqus resources with Adblock because they are frequently the slowest to load. My first question reading this was to ask if they made it faster, but the sub second updates mean its going to stay blocked. I want my browser sending less traffic, not more. (I also block gravatar and a bunch of other website "plugins")

Slowest to load? That sucks. It would be great if you could provide details. We serve all our static assets using Akamai, and they're aggressively cached client-side.

It may be a matter of perception, because you're firing off ajax requests after loading. I visit a page, stuff happens, and then there's "waiting for disqus.com..." in my status bar. The page could be ready to view, but out of habit I generally wait until everything is done. Whatever the last thing a site loads is, if it doesn't seem necessary for the site to function, it goes in adblock.

It would be nice if disqus would detect these things and send a static HTML thing with "allow us in noscript to join the discussion!" and maybe a static view of the thread so far.

I use Flashblock and Do Not Track, one of those messes with Disqus and I never see discussions either.

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