I disabled Brave shields to use this site and then my phone turned into an air fryer from all the bloatware it was loading. Temps went up like 20 DC.

The spite I have for fandom… is… so… intense

Numbers go brrrr

    • egrets@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1031·
      6 days ago

      Also, don’t use Brave.

      Brendan Eich is both vocally and financially opposed to LGBT+ equality. The browser has actively enabled targeted ads. They’ve actively promoted crypto and have been in bed with specific crypto brokers to promote its use. They’ve been adding their own promo codes to URLs for private benefit.

      They don’t give a shit about privacy. Don’t touch them with a barge pole.

      • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
        231·
        6 days ago

        I don’t mean to make light of the bigotry, but the fact that that fuckwad inflicted JavaScript upon the world is reason enough to hate him and avoid his shit by itself. He has a proven track record of incompetence and terrible design decisions.

        • gandalf_der_13te@feddit.orgEnglish
          27·
          6 days ago

          javascript is one of the best programming languages in the world. is was one of the first mainstream languages to adapt features such as coroutines, imports based on filename instead of classname/library name, etc.

          it does a lot of things right. haters gonna complain about the 5% efficiency lost because it doesn’t use static typing.

      • lechekaflan@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        5 days ago

        Brendan Eich

        All of his crimes against humanity puts him in the same circle of hell as the Koch Bros and the Mercers.

      • greenskye@lemmy.zipEnglish
        41·
        6 days ago

        If you don’t like Firefox mobile is there another ad blocking mobile browser that you’d suggest?

        • the_riviera_kid@lemmy.worldEnglish
          141·
          6 days ago

          Personally I use waterfox, it’s what firefox was before the ai trash was shoved into it and what it should still be.

        • BillyClark@piefed.socialEnglish
          31·
          6 days ago

          If you already have strong opinions about browsers, then I’m guessing this is unlikely, but if you have an iPhone, Orion is decent.

        • Rhonda Sandtits@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
          11·
          6 days ago

          Cromite has a built in adblocker but it also allows you to install extensions.

          I have Ublock Origin and Libredirect installed in Cromite on my phone.

    • morriscox@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      6 days ago

      One entry in the Testimonials section links to a satire website and people might not realize that.

    • Alex@lemmy.mlEnglish
      1·
      6 days ago

      Nice, although I’m slightly suss about the extension wanting access to my Google data.

  • Psythik@lemmy.worldEnglish
    521·
    6 days ago

    Firefox with Ublock Origin doesn’t have this issue. (Or whatever Firefox derivative you prefer.) Please stop using Chromium-based browsers. Google is actively trying to kill adblocking. Stick with Gecko.

  • mrgoosmoos@lemmy.caEnglish
    59·
    6 days ago

    this is extra funny because as anyone who’s been to fandom without an ad blocker knows, the site is 80% aids

  • FireWire400@lemmy.worldEnglish
    13·
    5 days ago

    Fandom is such a shitshow… I was part of a wikia based wiki for more than a decade and experienced the transition following the buyout rebrand to fandom/curse (it apparently wasn’t a buyout, sure felt like one though).

    The first thing they did was fire almost all the local staff and replace it by their people, then the enshittification began; they introduced a new discussion feed to replace the forum function (which was basically just lazy a Twitter clone). It was completely separate from the main wiki and pretty much killed off that side of the community. There were a lot of users that just used that without ever stepping a foot into the main wiki, which obviously isn’t very helpful when the site relies on users to create and maintain articles.

    They also trippled the amount of ads on the site and introduced a new layout that fucked up the old one we had meticulously created.

    I left that place in 2017 and so did pretty much all of the users and admins I knew. Once one of the top ten German language wikis, it’s pretty much abandoned now.

  • ozymandias117@lemmy.worldEnglish
    21·
    6 days ago

    How to allow ads on school & corporate networks

    Seems pretty fucking sketchy. “Please use these tricks to bypass your admin”

  • LillyPip@lemmy.caEnglish
    22·
    6 days ago

    Fandom has become progressively more fucked and unusable over the years. Can’t remember the last time I visited that site, it’s been a long while, but I remember being more than mildly infuriated.

  • the_riviera_kid@lemmy.worldEnglish
    181·
    6 days ago

    Well thats because brave is shit. Try a firefox fork like waterfox with ublock origin.

    I just did and had 0 issues.

  • Cethin@lemmy.zipEnglish
    11·
    6 days ago

    You should use the plugin Indie Wiki Buddy. It’s better than the people saying “just use Breeze Wiki.” It actively transfers you to the indie wiki option even when you select a Fandom link (if you have the option set). It also does a lot more than just Breeze Wiki. You can toggle certain wikis on or off and set their priorities. For example, some games won’t have a Breeze Wiki page, but they will have some other Wiki, and this handles that without you having to think about it.

  • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
    7·
    6 days ago

    Ohh, look at that, another website disappears from the net. Need to start taking any site that does that shit and spread it out on nomadnet

  • McGuirk808@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    5 days ago

    I use this bullshit to redirect from Fandom links:

    https://www.reddit.com/r/pathofexile/comments/10187i7/how_to_filter_out_the_fandom_wiki_in_google/

    1. Install uBlock Origin extension (available for both Chrome & Firefox)
    2. Click on the extension, go to Setting (or Dashboard), go to My Filters.
    3. Paste in the bottom
    google.*##.g:has(a[href*="pathofexile.fandom.com"])
google.*##a[href*="pathofexile.fandom.com"]:upward(1)

    But for any Fandom links.