thegooglecache.com— Proof of concept shows how the new url-based friend-adder feature makes "friend spamming" easier than myspace.
Mar 30, 2007View in Crawl 4
I wouldn't bother. They'll be working on a fix right now. If they know what they're doing, they'll have implemented a fix before this makes the front page.But until then, tin-foil hat wearers might like to log-out of digg.
>>imagine a big network doing this kind of tracking across all their domainsI doubt that would happen with any reputable site... when you next visit digg and it tells you you've got a new friend, ppl would get suspicious, and one can tell simply by viewing the HTML whether a site is using this trick. But porn & warez sites, perhaps.There's also a hell of a lot of tracking done by sites anyway, unknown to 99% of surfers. A lot of the ad-networks (particularly the less reputable ones) give webmasters some pretty interesting features.
buried. i imagine this was, in part, because...1. They are fixing it right now.2. If it hit the front page and tens of thousands of visitors came to it, the friends requests would kill the site.
If THEY bury it that's one thing. But it's another thing if they try to stiffle people talking about the site having had a security flaw AFTER it is fixed. If there is another article submitted, very good one, that does NOT stay on the homepage after the fix, then this place is just a big censorship factory. How ironic would that be. "power to the people. Oh but we secretly bury whatever we don't like". Hidden editors. That is what is creepy.
omniduggMar 30, 2007
I wouldn't bother. They'll be working on a fix right now. If they know what they're doing, they'll have implemented a fix before this makes the front page.But until then, tin-foil hat wearers might like to log-out of digg.
omniduggMar 30, 2007
>>imagine a big network doing this kind of tracking across all their domainsI doubt that would happen with any reputable site... when you next visit digg and it tells you you've got a new friend, ppl would get suspicious, and one can tell simply by viewing the HTML whether a site is using this trick. But porn & warez sites, perhaps.There's also a hell of a lot of tracking done by sites anyway, unknown to 99% of surfers. A lot of the ad-networks (particularly the less reputable ones) give webmasters some pretty interesting features.
Closed AccountMar 30, 2007Submitter
buried. i imagine this was, in part, because...1. They are fixing it right now.2. If it hit the front page and tens of thousands of visitors came to it, the friends requests would kill the site.
Closed AccountMar 30, 2007
If THEY bury it that's one thing. But it's another thing if they try to stiffle people talking about the site having had a security flaw AFTER it is fixed. If there is another article submitted, very good one, that does NOT stay on the homepage after the fix, then this place is just a big censorship factory. How ironic would that be. "power to the people. Oh but we secretly bury whatever we don't like". Hidden editors. That is what is creepy.
bysubmittedMar 30, 2007
Digg it up!
elguercotercoMar 30, 2007
yet another reason to leave digg for good
omniduggMar 30, 2007
...and I'm sure the community would get over losing a member who's been here for all of six weeks