Unfortunately not everyone uses them, and we shouldn’t ignore shitty business practices just because we personally avoid them.
Regardless, it doesn’t matter if you use an adblocker or not. Their website layout is fucking horrendous and 80% of your screen is completely wasted.
I mean, take a look at that very Fandom page on a full-screen browser. Anything highlighted red is shit I don’t give a single fuck about. Now take a look at exactly the same page on AntiFandom (without an adblocker). Fandom is incredibly wasteful of space, autoplays videos and streams on their website, completely fills their websites with ads, and doesn’t give a damn about the user. The sooner we all collectively drop it for better alternatives (like Wiki.gg), the better.
Edit: forgot to mention, it’s also basically impossible to close a fandom wiki. They won’t even let you leave. You could stop updating it and move to a different site, sure, but as Terraria has shown, even officially announcing your new wiki isn’t enough to become the top search result even after nearly 2 years. Meaning people will keep visiting fandom and keep seeing outdated information all the while.
In the meantime, I’d recommend anybody that ends up on fandom on the PC to install an extension like LibRedirect to automatically redirect fandom links to breezewiki or antifandom.
Unfortunately not everyone uses them, and we shouldn’t ignore shitty business practices just because we personally avoid them.
Regardless, it doesn’t matter if you use an adblocker or not. Their website layout is fucking horrendous and 80% of your screen is completely wasted. I mean, take a look at that very Fandom page on a full-screen browser. Anything highlighted red is shit I don’t give a single fuck about. Now take a look at exactly the same page on AntiFandom (without an adblocker). Fandom is incredibly wasteful of space, autoplays videos and streams on their website, completely fills their websites with ads, and doesn’t give a damn about the user. The sooner we all collectively drop it for better alternatives (like Wiki.gg), the better.
Edit: forgot to mention, it’s also basically impossible to close a fandom wiki. They won’t even let you leave. You could stop updating it and move to a different site, sure, but as Terraria has shown, even officially announcing your new wiki isn’t enough to become the top search result even after nearly 2 years. Meaning people will keep visiting fandom and keep seeing outdated information all the while.
In the meantime, I’d recommend anybody that ends up on fandom on the PC to install an extension like LibRedirect to automatically redirect fandom links to breezewiki or antifandom.