Submitted 2 weeks ago by cm0002@lemmy.world to memes@sopuli.xyz
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They hold the wiki data hostage under the guise of creative commons licence.
What’s that? You want to remove your game from our website? No.
You want to reference your official wiki on wiki.gg or someplace else? Na, we will remove that link and our SEO will always be on top of search results.
What’s wrong with Fandom?
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
how unusable it is without ublock
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.
“some ads will literally hostile takeover your screen and the only way out is to close the tab” kind
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
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.
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.
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.
Website is add riddled
If you’re browsing the web without an adblocker that’s kind of on you.
For me, a lot of content won’t open in the app - only works on Chrome.
scottmeme@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
getindie.wiki will redirect you to proper non fandom wikis
IsoSpandy@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
Thank you