Re:Facebook And Digg Are Stealing Content, Traffic, And Reve...
by jrockway on Saturday April 04, 2009 @08:36PM
(#546860)
Steals traffic - Digg doubles its traffic by showing your content in its frame and redirecting the shortened urls back to Digg instead of to your site.
When I share a site on Twitter or whatever, I usually link to the social news site instead of the site directly. I want my karma, and I want all the comments in one place. So toolbar or not, you aren't getting linked directly.
Also, this is not stealing. This gives you traffic that you wouldn't have had otherwise.
Steals links - by creating shortened urls that are redirect to Digg first and foremost
Not stealing. Want some cheese with that whine?
Steals content - your content is essentially being hosted by Digg through it’s framing structure.
Completely wrong, unless you think that web browsers are stealing your content. I mean, on Macs there is that Apple logo above your page, and in Firefox, there is a Firefox logo! Oh noes! (What's the difference between a Digg toolbar and browser chrome? I certainly don't see one.)
Steals potential revenue - by either blocking your content/ads or by stealing ad impressions/clicks.
Completely false. I use AdBlock anyway, so no need to worry. Nobody sees your ads.
Enables others to justify framing as well - then we are right back to where we started in the late 1990’s when websites were nothing more than frames within frames and lawsuits are handed dished out like candy.
When I share a site on Twitter or whatever, I usually link to the social news site instead of the site directly. I want my karma, and I want all the comments in one place. So toolbar or not, you aren't getting linked directly.
Also, this is not stealing. This gives you traffic that you wouldn't have had otherwise.
Steals links - by creating shortened urls that are redirect to Digg first and foremost
Not stealing. Want some cheese with that whine?
Steals content - your content is essentially being hosted by Digg through it’s framing structure.
Completely wrong, unless you think that web browsers are stealing your content. I mean, on Macs there is that Apple logo above your page, and in Firefox, there is a Firefox logo! Oh noes! (What's the difference between a Digg toolbar and browser chrome? I certainly don't see one.)
Steals potential revenue - by either blocking your content/ads or by stealing ad impressions/clicks.
Completely false. I use AdBlock anyway, so no need to worry. Nobody sees your ads.
Enables others to justify framing as well - then we are right back to where we started in the late 1990’s when websites were nothing more than frames within frames and lawsuits are handed dished out like candy.
"Handed dished"? Citation needed.
Citation needed for everything, in fact.