Why You Should Break The DiggBar
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Why You Should Break The DiggBar
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Re: Why You Should Break The DiggBar
#2The problem is, "breaking" the Diggbar can screw up traffic stats too. It will either result in an additional, invalid pageview, or mess up referrer stats.
We've elected to add a target="_blank" to all our links when we detect a frame around our content. The Diggbar will stay for the first pageview, but be gone for the second. And our stats are basically correct. We still see Digg as the referrer, we track the right number of pageviews, and life goes on.
Re: Why You Should Break The DiggBar
#3Interesting article. Digg just seems so irrelevant these days. Yes, they have a lot of users, and can drive some high traffic, but it's all junk.
Maybe the people not bothering to block it realize that DiggBar is likely to flame out on its own.
Re: Why You Should Break The DiggBar
#4Hey tomuse.com -- it's great that you got to the top spot on Hacker News! Congratulations! But we know how to subscribe to an RSS feed, thanks, and we can decide for ourselves if we want to. So how about taking down that insulting banner? Thanks!
Re: Why You Should Break The DiggBar
#5Being framed can also expose you to clickjacking attacks. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clickjacking)
If your site is mostly read-only then clickjacking doesn't really matter. But it's good practice to break frames around your site if you care about your visitor's clicks being spoofed (i.e. if you're running any sort of web application).
Twitter started doing this after they got hit by clickjacking a while ago: http://blog.twitter.com/2009/02/clickjacking-blocked.html
Re: Why You Should Break The DiggBar
#6Hey tomuse.com -- it's great that you got to the top spot on Hacker News! Congratulations! But we know how to subscribe to an RSS feed, thanks, and we can decide for ourselves if we want to. So how about taking down that insulting banner? Thanks!
Thank you. I was going to say the same thing.
Re: Why You Should Break The DiggBar
#7Why is it always that people who overuse sneaky tactics are the first to complain about others using same techniques?
Copied from the article: "Tags: blogger, Bloggers, browser, digg, diggbar, engadget, entrepreneur, follow me, frame spam, frame spammers, frame spamming, framebars, frames, framing.... " (this is only 2 of 7 lines of "tags")
Re: Why You Should Break The DiggBar
#8This is starting to border on irritating now. This must be the 57th article on why the diggbar is bad, with 55 of them from this tomuse.com jackoff.
Everyone on HN and their mom knows they should take precautions against the diggbar. We all got the message from the myriad posts about it. Seriously, we get it!!
If it's to get people from HN to visit your site and subscribe to your feed, like you invite them to do with your very own banner on top of the article, well - mission failed. I went out of my way to not subscribe because of how annoying this has become.
There's about a billion other things happening. Try reporting on them for a change.
P.S. you're the first person to make me wish for a downvote option on HN. Good job.
Re: Why You Should Break The DiggBar
#9Why is it always that people who overuse sneaky tactics are the first to complain about others using same techniques? Copied from the article: "Tags: blogger, Bloggers, browser, digg, diggbar, engadget, entrepreneur, follow me, frame spam, frame spammers, frame spamming, framebars, frames, framing.... " (this is only 2 of 7 lines of "tags")
They're upset they didn't think of it first.
Re: Why You Should Break The DiggBar
#10Humorously tomuse.com uses the "Link Cloaking Plugin for WordPress" so you can't tell where anything is going (though it does use proper 301 redirects). These things are normally used by scuzzy people trying to hide affiliate stuff. It looks free, but a competitor even has one of those really long marketing pages that are usually used for real estate and eBooks:
http://www.wordpresslinkcloak.com/
It one ups the freebie and uses 302 Moved Temporarily.