The new DiggBar really annoys the tits off me – I cannot see which link I’m going to when I’m on Digg’s front page and before I bookmark something I have to remember to close the damn thing or I end up with the short Digg URL bookmarked. Even worse, some morons start submitting the short URLs to other sites like Stumbleupon and I even came across submissions on Reddit. WTF! It’s not like your browser can’t handle long URLs. And if i want to submit a page to another social site then I’ll use a bookmarklet or one of the many submit/share buttons found on most pages.
You can disable it in your Digg profile settings:
- click the My Profile link at the top of Digg’s front page
- click the Settings tab
- click viewing preferences under Options on the right and select Never show DiggBar for external links under Site-wide Preferences
- save the changes.
To automatically get rid of the bar on pages that you come across out in the wild you can use a Greasemonkey script like DiggBar Killer or Anti Diggbar.
Update: check out my follow-up post if you run your own website.
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