funkdified

In addition to the calls to disqus' API, I'm also seeing one or multiple requests to the following domains:

  tapestry.tapad.com
  pippio.com
  p.nexac.com
  adadvisor.net
  s.thebrighttag.com
  emailretargeting.com
  loadus.exelator.com
  tags.bluekai.com
  bevo.adsnative.com
  bcp.crwdcntrl.net

Open the console on this page and see for yourself:

  https://jsfiddle.net/bmfmr2ps/

Also, they clearly have no domain whitelisting, as I can just load up Google's Disqus engine in a jsfiddle.

The worst part. I am actually paying Disqus to opt-out of their ad service. I call bullshit.

One more gripe: I did a 3G throttle test with browser caching turned off, and loading all this garbage for Disqus took a few seconds! Time to remove from my site completely. Anyone know any good replacements?

So my company was mentioned on the first page of the NYT business section last week. The article also appeared online. The online version displayed a direct link to my website, while the print version had no link (obviously). It was exciting watching my traffic more than double for the day ... But what really fascinated me was seeing how many people took to Google to learn more about my company after reading about it in the print edition. Using Google webmaster tools "search analytics" I was able to see a spike in searches for "Hearing Tracker" on the day of the NYT piece. Pretty neat!

Link to search analytics screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/sK48oIS.png