Daring Fireball: How to Block the DiggBar - The Diigo Meta page

• 13 Apr 09
  

  FruFru FourOne
• 11 Apr 09
  

  Sheryl A. McCoy

  Warning: Adult language, yet a necessary discussion of trends and issues in url shortening services.
  
  "But unlike normal URL shortening services, when you load these Digg URLs, rather than redirect you to the original URL, Digg loads a page which frames the content of the original site. As a user, what you see is that the URL in your browser’s location field remains digg.com/1234, and the content of the destination site loads underneath a Digg-branded toolbar."

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• 10 Apr 09
  

  Daniel Andrlik

  I love this post from John Gruber on how to block the DiggBar, and in effect, Digg itself. I'm also highly amused by the [message](http://digg.com/d1oNOZ) he displays to users that try to access his site via the DiggBar.
  
  There is already some [Django middleware](http://www.djangosnippets.org/snippets/1425/ "DiggBar Middleware") available for this that can be easily adapted to forward users to any custom view or external site you wish. I'll definitely be setting this up on my site soon.
  
  **UPDATE:** I decided to use frame-busting JavaScript instead since that takes care of Facebook and other sites that do framing as well. Like anything else it can be countered, but it's a start.

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  Graham Smith
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  The Favorista

  John Gruber fights against the new frames-based DiggBar.

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  Scott Moody

  use JavaScript

  diggbar frames framebusting

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