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Remarkbox is a hosted comments system for websites that removes ads and tracking. It allows site owners to add a comments section to their pages without relying on third-party advertising or user surveillance. The… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Remarkbox – Hosted comments without ads or tracking launched in 2021; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    Hosted commenting that's painless to embed, a pleasure to use, and a breeze to moderate.

    2018 · commentbox.io · its alternatives →

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    A beautiful, ad-free alternative to Disqus.

    2018 · commentbox.io · its alternatives →

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    Remark42 is a self-hosted, lightweight commenting system

    2021 · remark42.com · its alternatives →

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    A privacy-focused comment system

    2023 · its alternatives →

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    Comment without any sign-up process

    2024 · commented.io · its alternatives →

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    A fast, bloat-free comments platform (Github mirror) - adtac/commento

    2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Simplify feedback, keep your team aligned, no live meetings

    2023 · commented.io · its alternatives →

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    Web analytics with full session playback, now free

    2017 · fullstory.com · its alternatives →

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    MarkUp▲442

    Turn your website into a dynamic canvas ready for feedback

    2020 · markup.io · its alternatives →

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    Enable discussion in your product effortlessly

    2023 · its alternatives →

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    Comment system for websites

    2019 · its alternatives →

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    Marktag▲313

    All-in-one pixel to recapture audiences for cookieless era

    2023 · markopolo.ai · its alternatives →

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    Hey HN, I'm a freelance web developer and got tired of the endless email chains during website QA. Clients would send screenshots with red circles, or worse, Word docs with "the button on the page with the thing." I'd spend more time decoding feedback than actually fixing stuff. So I built Commentblocks. You add a script to your staging site, send clients a link, and they click anywhere on the page to leave a comment. That's it. No signup for them, no explaining how to use it. Each comment captures the exact element, viewport size, browser, and URL. Comments show up in a dashboard or can go…

    Feb 2026 · commentblocks.com · its alternatives →

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    Remark▲9

    Uncensored Comments, anywhere.

    2024 · its alternatives →

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    Self-hosted analytics with session replays, heatmaps & more.

    2020 · 66analytics.com · its alternatives →

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    Hi everyone, I made a commenting system that accepts submissions via email, instead of requiring a login. The back story is I wanted some interactivity for my site/blog, but I felt like requiring a signup wouldn't be a good UX. I'm looking to get feedback on it from the HN community. Please feel free to ask questions and let me know your thoughts, especially what you don't like about it. If it's a decent UX then I would like to make it OSS, as I feel that it could potentially fill a void, especially for beautiful small websites. Here's the basic flow of data: 1. When the site is…

    2023 · r3ply.com · its alternatives →

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    Replyke▲346

    APIs for user content, social graphs, and moderation tools

    2025 · sublay.io · its alternatives →

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    Restore Facebook ad remarketing audiences to pre 2019 levels

    2024 · customers.ai · its alternatives →

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    Comment and rate any website without leaving the page

    2020 · its alternatives →

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    An extension for Firefox and Chrome to add comments to any URL - comntr/webext

    2019 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Point, draw & explain on images

    2025 · commenteasy.com · its alternatives →

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