Comment by Gentil
5 years ago
Forums are awesome for this context. It is most of the time better for privacy as well.
But is it just me or whenever I use Discourse forum, my FB container in Firefox shows it has blocked something which FB uses to track me! This is in multiple discourse forums self hosted and otherwise. So am assuming it is bundled with Discourse. This bugs me the hell out. And Discourse is everywhere too since it has an open source version.
I think Flarum is awesome and maturing! (https://flarum.org/)
It may be Facebook login. They don’t have native support for a Facebook pixel or like button to my knowledge and it’s not likely that every discourse forum is manually adding those things - it almost seems antithetical to have a self-hosted forum and be promoting a Facebook group/page.
I hope they remove it. Anything and everything FB sends data. Their share button alone does it. Don't you think their auth does it too?