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gandalf_der_13te feddit.org gandalf_der_13te@feddit.org
Joined: 2026-08-01
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Artwork lemmy.world artwork@lemmy.world
Joined: 2025-12-03
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Unfortunately...

Though, I do appreciate Fandom (former Wikicities; Wikia) for providing many awesome information people wrote and organized in the Wiki, including some I recall for video-games history even, as Serious Sam, Harry Potter, Celeste, Starbound, Minecraft etc. and for an chances to participate in these, too...

Yet, indeed... such an attitude may worsen the presentation and overall access to the system to the point many will just skip it leaving an invaluably marvelous underlying information unseen...
Others, with more time or support, may migrate, but where to find time for it to achieve properly, respectfully, accurately, and carefully...

Related:
- https://www.reddit.com/r/Adblock/comments/1vw2y2r/which_site_has_the_most_ads/p5dtlpj/
- https://weirdgloop.org/blog/why-were-helping-more-wikis-move-away-from-fandom
- https://weirdgloop.org/blog/we-wrote-a-guide (We wrote a guide to help you get your wiki off Fandom...)

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tal lemmy.today tal@lemmy.today
Joined: 2023-10-04
#3 · Quote Reply

If the issue is the sidebar:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/fandom-sidebar-remover/

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EonNShadow pawb.social EonNShadow@pawb.social
Joined: 2023-06-10
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Unfortunately... Though, I do appreciate Fandom (former Wikicities; Wikia) for providing many awesome information people wrote and organized in the Wiki, including some I recall for video-games history even, as Serious Sam, Harry Potter, Celeste, Starbound, Minecraft etc. and for an chances to participate in these, too... Yet, indeed... such an attitude may worsen the presentation and overall a...

Fandom is home to some great wikis, if it wasn't for some of the most aggressive, user-hostile advertising in the business.

I just don't bother anymore.

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gandalf_der_13te feddit.org gandalf_der_13te@feddit.org
Joined: 2026-08-01
#5 · Quote Reply

If the issue is the sidebar: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/fandom-sidebar-remover/

no lol, the issue is the ad covering half the available screen size :P

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gandalf_der_13te feddit.org gandalf_der_13te@feddit.org
Joined: 2026-08-01
#6 · (edited) Quote Reply

Fandom is home to some great wikis, if it wasn't for some of the most aggressive, user-hostile advertising in the business. I just don't bother anymore.

fandom is a classic example of a company shamelessly profiting off user's contributions

they only get page views at all because of stuff that people wrote.

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