The Evil Diggbar

http://www.webmonkey.com/blog/The_Diggbar_Is_Evil__Here_s_How_to_Stop_it

by mooted • 17 years ago

19 7 17 years ago

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palish2• 17 years ago

Minor typo:

"Here’s the problem: If your site ends up on Digg, visitors using the Diggbar will not visit your URL"

The italicized "not" is omitted in the actual article.

lpgauth• 17 years ago

What about the Facebookbar? Why is no one complaining?

mncaudill• 17 years ago

Even reddit has one; it's just disabled in the user's settings by default.

palish2• 17 years ago

Defaults matter.

barredo• 17 years ago

I guess the Facebook's main goal it's not to provide links to external sites where the real information is.

Also, Facebook's bar does not pretend to be a URL shortener to get links and increase it's own traffic.

domnit• 17 years ago

Digg can avoid pissing people off with this by adding their own framebuster. If the frameset's HTTP referrer is Digg, then the DiggBar is a potentially useful toolbar. If the referrer is something else, it should redirect to the original page.

zubar• 17 years ago

Ironically he isn't blocking the diggbar.

The Evil Diggbar

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