The DiggBar Uprising

Back in May 2007, Digg users revolted against the popular social bookmarking web service over Digg’s overzealous removal of articles that mentioned the AACS key. The first Digg Rebellion was resolved with Digg caving in their users’ wisdom of crowds. The Second Digg Intifada began when Digg launched their now infamous DiggBar, aka DoucheBar. The DiggBar iframe carjacks your content. Since the launch of the DiggBar, all the links on Digg’s front page that used to refer to third party and often independent content producers not refers back to Digg. When you link on a Digg link, they load your content in an iframe below their DiggBar. The DiggBar allows ‘digg users’ to find similar articles, vote up and down, and click on Digg ads.

We have seen similar polemic behavior from you upstart entrepreneurs before, not to long ago Facebook faced a similar uprising over their Terms of Service. Facebook reversed their Terms of Service, I wonder how Digg will save face if not their good will.

Here are some choice reactions to the DiggBar.

This entry was posted on Friday, April 10th, 2009 at 9:32 pm