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Digg Backs Down On DiggBar

Posted by CmdrTaco on 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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  1. I do believe by gringofrijolero · · Score: 5, Funny

    This is the ongoing joke

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  2. Re:Slashdot Bar in the Works? by thomasdz · · Score: 4, Funny

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

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  3. Re:Do we really have to revive the 90s web by Reapman · · Score: 3, Funny

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

  4. Oh, frames REALLY make me puke. by tjstork · · Score: 3, Funny

    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?

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  5. Re:I never thought I'd say this with a straight fa by casualsax3 · · Score: 5, Funny
    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.