Comments on: Will the DiggBar instigator be fired?

By: תוכנה לביטוח

תוכנה לביטוח — Mon, 04 May 2009 15:46:31 +0000

Great article, thank you very much.

By: David Gerard

David Gerard — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 21:46:51 +0000

“the privacy debacle disguised as an advertising platform that comes once in a century”

Heh. So far we’ve been seeing such once-in-a-century events roughly annually …

By: Kontra

Kontra — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 21:54:18 +0000

That didn't take too long. DiggBar behavior is soon to be neutered, says the aforementioned Quinn. No firings were announced, though.

By: Gazoobee

Gazoobee — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 14:48:46 +0000

I think at some point Digg will have to remove the bar or admit that it wasn’t the best idea, or do some kind of minor climb-down. They only don’t need to do this if they are prepared to not be “cool” anymore. The issue is that the technorati who might promote Digg, (or anyone who reads it regularly believing themselves to be in that same group), think of themselves as a sort of Internet culture elite. Digg can only continue to propagate through that group if it maintains it’s “coolness” by removing the bar.

It’s almost like there is a sort of cultural “line in the sand” on the Internet with Google and Facebook on one side of it, and Yahoo! and MySpace on the other. If Digg leaves the bar, they will always inhabit the MySpace side of that line. So either they climb down at some point, or some other site gets to wear the cool hat for a while.

By: dmt

dmt — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 01:06:31 +0000

To block the Diggbar in Adblock Plus, add this url to your blocked sites filter: |http://media.digg.com/*

By: Kontra

Kontra — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 22:50:18 +0000

Who cares? The sites that originate content but do not get the benefit of proper link-count w/ indexers because Digg steals the redirection.

By: Kontra

Kontra — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 22:48:23 +0000

“remove Digg from your bookmarks”

How does that solve the issue of Digg stealing link-count from a site that brings you something that you want to read? You don’t need to use Digg yourself to be affected by this scheme, and your favorite sites will likely suffer just the same.

Indeed, Digg seems to rely on people’s general lack of understanding of the underlying browser redirection issue involved here, which makes it all the more insidious.

By: casey

casey — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 16:41:52 +0000

Honestly, I’m failing to see the big fuss over this DiggBar cryfest. Who cares really?

By: Lucas

Lucas — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 13:39:58 +0000

… except they’re not getting taxpayer money, nor are they putting the world economy at risk. The stakes are much lower. If you don’t like it, do what Poch did: remove Digg from your bookmarks.

No one needs to be fired. This is simply the age-old battle between the innovators (developers) and the business men (Quinn). Quinn is only happy because traffic is up 20%. If that number changes, he’ll remove the DiggBar for sure.

By: Kontra

Kontra — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 09:30:05 +0000

Are you hopeful or just expecting?