Digg Backs Down On DiggBar

Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday April 16, 2009 @02:04AM from the frames-are-bad-mmkay dept.

Barence writes "Social news website Digg.com has made key changes to its recently introduced DiggBar. The browser add-on had been much criticised for its use of frames to 'host' third-party websites within the digg.com domain using an obfuscating short URL, thereby boosting its own traffic figures to the detriment of those third parties. After many major sites ran negative articles on the DiggBar, and even changed their code to block it, Digg has relented and announced two changes to ease concerns."

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Re:What I want to know is by Anonymous Coward · 2009-04-16 02:42 · Score: -1, Flamebait

So if it's not OK for Digg to do this stuff, why is it ok for Facebook? Why the double standard?
Well, for one thing nobody cares about Facebook except a bunch of hormone-ridden kids.
Whereas with Digg, well, ummm ok, you got me on that one...