Yes but again, I prefer not to offload commenting to a third party because they can ban you(reddit can ban your subreddit) or just stop their service(Google Plus comments). If I am to use Reddit, I might as well just use Disqus or Facebook comments that I can embed on the site and my visitors won't even have to leave the site to comment on a post.
Hmm a 1st party commenting service can ban you too? What makes you feel safer w.r.t. getting banned, if you were to use say a service provided by Ghost, instead of e.g. Disqus?
A difference could be that, with a 1st party commenting service, your whole blog might get banned, instead of only the comments. (Depending on how banning gets implemented.)
Yes I agree. That's why I am a proponent of hosting your blog posts and comments yourself using Wordpress or other similar CMS on a VPS or a shared host.
Also, Ghost doesn't even have a commenting service of their own and one would need to rely on Disqus to add comments on a Ghost powered blog :)
Hosting companies banning you is very rare(at least with reputable ones, I am not sure of the cheap VPSs on lowendbox). And you can always download the database and move to another hosting pretty easily. Subreddits getting banned is not so rare. If lets say Disqus (or reddit) bans you, how do you move those comments to another third party lets say facebook comments(or HN)?
>And you will contribute to unethical tracking practices even if your users are not logged in to Facebook or Disqus[1].
I don't care much about that because one way or the other one of the tech giants is going to track us anyway. I would much rather install Google analytics and get a great overview of my visitors. I don't think anyone who is an active user of the tracking behemothos Facebook or Google(which represents most of the internet users) should be concerned about tracking.
But coming to main point, I am actually against Disqus or facebook comments. I prefer plain old self hosted comments(wordpress) for other reasons and this solves your concern as well.
