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PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 3 months ago
What’s wrong with Fandom?
aeronmelon@lemmy.world 3 months ago
PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 3 months ago
IDK dude, sounds like there might be something there but I can’t watch a 34 minute video to absorb why this web site is bad. I tried to paste the transcript to Claude, but Claude is busy eating its own dick right now, so no help there. I’ll take your word for it that they’re fucking it all up for reasons of their own but I’m not completely convinced that the problem cannot be solved with an ad blocker.
Zikeji@programming.dev 3 months ago
If I have to use an ad blocker to make a site remotely usable (and you have to to make it usable), then I don’t even want to give them traffic.
PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 3 months ago
I guess my question is, why would you be on the internet without an ad blocker at this point in the first place?
Not saying you’re wrong, it is just a weird position to even be in. Why?
Flipper@feddit.org 3 months ago
Classics like adding AI generated stuff on top with completely wrong information.
raltoid@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Same thing that’s wrong with imgur and many other websites: It was made for a singular purpose, but over the years it was turned more and more into a commercialized social media platform.
If you open fandom now, about half the page is filled with links, images, notifications, etc. trying to get you to join their “community”, and things like that. And that’s with adblock. Without it’s actually hard to find what is the real content.
Gladaed@feddit.org 3 months ago
Website is add riddled and barely works. It is very slow. Compare eg. PoE wiki.net with the fandom article when it comes to e.g. Weapon Base types. Also the fandom site stole the content of the community wiki and now suppresses it in the Google search.
remon@ani.social 3 months ago
Website is add riddled
If you’re browsing the web without an adblocker that’s kind of on you.
lankydryness@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I agree with you, however I always have ublock but fandom is still terrible. The html layout for instance, just bad.
I’ve been meaning to update wiki.gg with the new gadget info for Derail Valley because I just hate going on Fandom for it
harrys_balzac@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months ago
For me, a lot of content won’t open in the app - only works on Chrome.
gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months ago
A lot, starting with violent commercialization and how unusable it is without ublock. And not in the “oh it’s a lot of ads” meaning, more the “some ads will literally hostile takeover your screen and the only way out is to close the tab” kind
PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 3 months ago
I know an easy answer to this problem that will also improve a lot of your other internet browsing experience.
I have literally very little idea of what the internet is like without ublock now, but every time I accidentally experience it, I have a violent negative reaction. It’s awful. It’s really the worst. Have you been to YouTube without it? Jesus Christ man. No thank you.
What else? I don’t go to Fandom often or anything, but when I do visit it doesn’t bother me that there’s all sorts of awful stuff I am not seeing.
Landless2029@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Ditto. I used fandom yesterday for Terraria. Got my info in and out. No problem.
I haven’t raw dogged the internet in several years. Always running ublock. Of your website hits me with that “disable your ad blocker” shit then I just try another site.
cryptiod137@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Terraria now has an official wiki terraria.wiki.gg
I honestly don’t know how people actually use any website nowadays without adblockers
stebo02@sopuli.xyz 3 months ago
not to challenge the fact that fandom is awful but I’ve just browsed a few fandom pages without adblock and all I see is a somewhat obstructive banner ad at the top but nothing I haven’t seen before