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I have frequently said to myself, "you know what Fandom needs? More ads" If I'm looking for a specific piece of info that ends up being on a fandom wiki, it's
by backspace_ 2y ago
I have frequently said to myself, "you know what Fandom needs? More ads"
If I'm looking for a specific piece of info that ends up being on a fandom wiki, it's quite a turn off.
- pytness 2y agoAlso, the site is really slow. The only thing that the site manages to turn on is the computer fans.
- chongli 2y agoIt gets a lot better with an ad blocker and other annoyance-blockers. The deeper question is whether or not you think it’s worth it. I think many people visit Fandom pages only briefly from a SERP and then take off, like Wikipedia but specific to a game. If that’s the way you use Fandom then it’s probably not worth it. What makes it worth it is if there’s a page specific to a game you like and you spend a good amount of time there reading stuff. That’s a long tail thing though.
- cozzyd 2y agoWhenever my phone accidentally opens fandom with Chrome rather than Firefox mobile (with uBO), I wonder how the hell anybody browses the internet on their phone without an ad blocker...
- AdmiralAsshat 2y agoMost of the time I don't notice it because I use Firefox w/ uB0 on all platforms. But recently I've been playing some games on Steam and trying to use Steam's browser overlay to cache some guides. Its browser seems to be a chrome fork and does not support any kind of adblocker, unfortunately, and so I've been exposed to just how bad Fandom wikis are without one.
- rchaud 2y agoThat's just par for the course for any online service these days, though. It's not like Netflix, Hulu Spotify are keeping their prices flat.