Hugo - Fuji Theme - disqus comments are not loaded

Your question is not related to Hugo as it is about JS.

However deferred loading of the Disqus comments is a privacy feature (there has been at least one topic offering a techique to achieve it).

Disqus comments come with user tracking and if the comments were loaded on a page by default it would not be compliant with the privacy regulations (GDPR) in the EU.

I am no fan of Disqus because of their mining user and visitor data and also I find the ads they serve of the lesser quality type. I would really not want to associate my content with such a service.

There are better and more privacy friendly commenting services out there like: Isso, Utterances, Talkyard or the new Welcomments -that offers pre-rendered HTML static comments-.

Also there have been forum topics about these services, so if you perform a forum search you may find instructions about setting them up in a Hugo project.

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