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Why Digg is Blocked (whydiggisblocked.com)
1 point by nickb on Nov 25, 2007 | hide | past | favorite | 4 comments



Check out the section with the code. Not the nicest code I have seen. They seem to confuse the user agent with the referrer, and they encourage you to call the file "fftest.php". The JavaScript is silly, since they require PHP on the server instead of just doing it all in JavaScript, and I don't think it will even work since they are taking the referrer from the JavaScript file which should be the page that requested it.


Please ignore this.

The guy who started this whole "why(firefox|digg|etc)isblocked.com" thing is a sleazebag SEO jackass. This is just another publicity stunt of his.


I thought the same thing. Just post something annoying, and everybody will surf to your page to rant. Cheap... Especially funny is the domain name - why create a page for the sole purpose of blocking digg? Not very credible.


It also shows how predictable the Digg users are... if you want a bunch of traffic from Digg, make something to piss off Digg users.

Digg: mob mentality at it's finest.




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