Inquiring Minds 👀 A recent Twitter…

Inquiring Minds 👀

A recent Twitter thread and blog post from Remy Sharp takes on Disqus as a Trojan horse for Facebook and all sorts of tracking scripts after he took a look at his blog’s source code: 🐴

It _really_ pisses me off that my blog, with no link to Facebook, has a Facebook script injected via @disqus. That’ll probably be the final motivator to pull all my comments into a self hosted system (or maybe https://t.co/V66yjpiUOx)

— @rem (@rem) June 10, 2019

Rand Fishkin wanted to know “How Much of Google’s Search Traffic is Left for Anyone But Themselves?”

Answer: Somewhere south of 88%, as a conservative estimate. 📉

As Google directs more searches to its various (Alphabet) properties, the results left to everyone else is shrinking fast:

In 2019 Google sent ~20% fewer organic clicks via browser searches than they did in 2016.”