Digg Backs Down On DiggBar

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."

Comments

I do believe

[gringofrijolero]

This is the ongoing joke

Re:I do believe

[multipartmixed]

Why is your mom searching for sexy singles?

Re:What I want to know is

[Anonymous Coward]

Nobody wants to admit they use Facebook. But you did, sucker!

Re:What I want to know is

[Anonymous Coward]

I find your comment pejorative. Facebook actually embeds ajax pdfs in their pages, so facebook traffic is in fact the driving force behind many adword campaigns. Not to mention that cottages have nothing to do with this.

Digg on the other hand sidesteps the mime interaction. So the diggbar does not induce any additional ad revenue, google analytics handles the exceptions appropriately.

Re:Slashdot Bar in the Works?

[thomasdz]

What we need is a "uber-bar" that puts all of the various other bars into a frame to help us out.

Re:Do we really have to revive the 90s web

[Reapman]

Don't forget the Blink tag. Everyone LOVES Blinkie! Or the little Construction Icons... mmmmmmm

Oh, frames REALLY make me puke.

[tjstork]

The summary is wrong. It's not a browser add-on. It's a frame, loaded via HTML, like any other frame. It loads when you click a link on Digg.

In that case, I amend my post to "frames really make me puke.", followed by, "web sites that use frames to hijack other web sites really, really make me puke." I thought framejacking went out with the early 90s?

Re:What I want to know is

[Anonymous Coward]

Furries? Fuck furries.

Re:Not the first, wont be the last

[yoshi_mon]

Slashdot's moderation system may have its faults, but it is the best damn system I've seen for a website with lots of traffic.

Indeed. I'm regularly surprised that /.'s moderation system has not been copied/implemented in more places. No system is going to be perfect but /.'s does work pretty damn well.

Re:*sigh* No, it doesn't

[Anonymous Coward]

It was useless to me until I removed "moderate safe search" in the preferences ;-)

Re:I never thought I'd say this with a straight fa

[casualsax3]

The best of the best posts (the ones where someone drops a paragraph of science that just ends the argument, or blows you away) are still here at Slashdot, but the signal to noise ratio has been fading fast lately.

Overall I find Reddit's comments are better and certainly more entertaining than Slashdot these days. The first 20 posts top level posts here are always a mixture of Off Topic, Troll, or +5 Funnies that aren't actually funny.

Re:Do we really have to revive the 90s web

[Anonymous Coward]

Yeah, it is quite embarassing if you use your Laptop for work and "play" in the evening. And the stupid webbrowser auto-loads the last webpage. And you forgot to turn the sound off. And you have female coworkers...

Oh, Youtube? Sorry, nevermind...

Re:Do we really have to revive the 90s web

[Anonymous Coward]

*That's* your problem with the blink tag? Way to miss the joke.