How to Opt-Out of Disqus Reveal

We use Disqus to power the comments on several sites.

This week, Disqus sent a friendly email:

"Congratulations! After careful review, we’ve approved your site OSTaining for Reveal—Disqus’ monetization solution for publishers."

Congratulations? I didn't even know what Reveal was until that moment.

Then a few days later, on Friday, another email arrived to say that Reveal would be automatically enabled in 4 days time, unless we opted out.

After a bit of research (information about Reveal isn't easy to find), it turns out that Reveal involves placing sponsored ads above and below your comments. This image below shows the ads:

It seems that the only way to opt-out is the link the bottom of the Disqus emails ...

I tried to opt-out by logging in to Disqus.com and selecting a site ...

... but Reveal only provides a blank box for now. I suspect there may be more options here after the roll-out of Reveal.

I'll update this post next week with more details, but for now - use the email link if you don't want Reveal. This page has a screenshot of some settings for Reveal, but I couldn't find how to access them.

Don't get me wrong, we still like Disqus. We use Disqus on this Joomla-powered blog, and we've written tutorials on integrating it with Drupal and WordPress. But, they haven't done a good job with the roll-out of this new advertising feature.

About the author

Steve is the founder of OSTraining. Originally from the UK, he now lives in Sarasota in the USA. Steve's work straddles the line between teaching and web development.