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Why Digg is Blocked

Went Hot: November 27, 2007 - 8:29 am
Posted By: DoshDosh 321 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://whydiggisblocked.com)
Category: News Sites

You've reached this page because the site you were trying to visit now blocks visitors from Digg and other social media sites....Digg users who don't click on these ads are stealing bandwidth without paying for it and website owners deserve a method to block this unauthorized bandwith theft.

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from blogrush 321 days ago #

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Sounds like someone is a little too dependent on certain kinds of advertising. Yeah they don't click as well from SOME social sites, especially Digg, but killing off all that traffic is something only someone who is totally dependent on Google would do.

from g1smd 320 days ago #

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LOL.

""It's my ball, and as you won't play with me, I'm taking it away. Waaaahhhhhhhhhh!!!!""

Interesting concept: Click on my ads or you can't read my website.

from fantomaster 320 days ago #

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Looks like another rather whacky linkbait job to me. Not that they are entirely wrong in terms of Digg and most others, but blanket statements (and measures) like that do reek of attention whoring.

from NickWilsdon 318 days ago #

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You'd think he'd put some ads on the block page...

from pittfall 318 days ago #

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Bandwidth theft? They are visitors, why not make it a member only website and make everyone sign in before continuing? Why don't they go to digg and ask to disallow any diggs from their URL or build a crappier website that will entice users to leave it for a Google AdSense ad?

from patrickaltoft 318 days ago #

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Anybody else read the bottom part of this?

http://whydiggisblocked.com/response.html

from katfrench 318 days ago #

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LOL... can't wait till next week... I love serial fiction!

The best part was the bit about social media users being small in terms of online spending. Somebody wanna ring up eMarketer and let them in on that interesting non-statistic?

from Gamermk 318 days ago #

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While I don't agree with this route, I do agree that people that use ad blockers should have content blocked for them. The reality is websites have to function somehow and running an ad blocker is essentially liking stealing.

from IncrediBILL 318 days ago #

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OK, this article is stupid because it focuses on a group of users and a specific browser which is just wrong. I've went into in detail on Why Firefox is Misguidely Blocked about 2 months ago.

FWIW, if you're running an AdSense site and block people telling them you can't come in because you don't click the ads is probably against the rules because when they get in they might just click the ads to gain access which is click fraud. Too much click fraud, aka BOUNCE, and you'll probably get banned from AdSense.

If you must stop them from downloading, detect when things are being blocked and just say "Access Denied due to blocking of complete content displayed from this site" or something that doesn't point at the advertising directly.

from JakePM 317 days ago #

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Funny stuff. I'm amazed that they have the time to focus on that strategy.

"we suggest stopping using social media sites and finding the resources through Google instead."

Sounds like a spinnmaster from a PAC...

Also the term "resources" should actually mean CONTENT, not advertising...

IMHO, sites filled with advertising are simply not that "resourceful".