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Minecraft Wiki moves away from Fandom (minecraft.wiki)
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[–] storksforlegs@beehaw.org 65 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Fandom is 95% popups at this point.

[–] DarkThoughts@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Ublock?

[–] johntash@eviltoast.org 30 points 1 year ago (3 children)

It looks pretty bad even with an adblocker on now too

[–] HidingCat@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

It works for me, but I recall having to use Ublock's element zapper and custom rules to get around a lot of the shit they pull.

[–] DarkThoughts@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

In what way? The sidebar is possibly the only thing I can think of.

[–] storksforlegs@beehaw.org 16 points 1 year ago

Oh indeed! But websites should still be borderline functional even without adblock.

I used fandom on my kid's new tablet (we were looking up video game stuff) and it was unusable, no exaggeration.

[–] BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Use an adblocker (uBlock Origin)

[–] frog@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Even with uBlock Origin installed, I find Fandom to have a very high proportion of ads. For a while I tried blocking them individually through uBlock's element zapper, but that proved a very short term solution. Too often, it worked only on that page and if I went to another entry on the same wiki, it would be loaded down with ads again. I gave up trying. uBlock is really good with ads on most sites, but Fandom has so many that uBlock can't get rid of them all.

[–] abhibeckert@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Really? I don't see any ads at all on Fandom with ublock. Perhaps check if it's setup right.

[–] frog@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

It varies between browsers. On my phone (which is how I use Fandom most often - finding out information that ought to be in a game I'm currently playing), I've tried several different adblockers and none of them effectively de-ads Fandom. On desktop, Firefox with ublock is generally okay, but Chrome with ublock always has a couple of ads that try to sneak through.