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

Do we really have to revive the 90s web

[pimpimpim]

Remember: music starting automatically when you open a website, animated pictures, and of course, frames. What's the next, the unreadable background pattern

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

[cripkd]

Slightly offtopic: why the hell does youtube autoplays the movies when you open up a page?

Another reason

[Rik Sweeney]

Yet another reason not to use Digg

Re:What I want to know is

[QuantumRiff]

I wonder, would cracked.com even exist if it wasn't on digg's front page every other day or so with another top X list... Not saying they aren't entertaining.. but damn, they have alot of them.

Re:What I want to know is

[tedgyz]

Sure there are valid uses. My point is that the implication that I must be on FB, myspace, twitter to be relevant is what is annoying.

They are trendy fads that serve a purpose, but their importance and media attention seems overblown, IMHO.

Re:Slashdot Bar in the Works?

[Hatta]

They don't care what we think. They know we hate Slash 2.0. They know we hate the new user pages. They know we hate idle. They just don't care.