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
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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.
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I block and and all sites that demand I turn off adblockers. Like, they don’t even show up in searches.
UBlacklist FTMFW.
I use the app Wikipanion to access fandom wilis on my phone
Antifandom.com works great to avoid them
Ah, Ad-Shield. Use https://github.com/FilteringDev/tinyShield for that. Also, stop using Brave.
What’s wrong with brave?
CEO is a bigot
Brendan Eich can go fuck himself
Well thats because brave is shit. Try a firefox fork like waterfox with ublock origin.
I just did and had 0 issues.
this is extra funny because as anyone who’s been to fandom without an ad blocker knows, the site is 80% aids
aids
You know, that’s not wrong…
I’ve been there. I’ve watched the site enshittify right in front of my own eyes
Breeze wiki is already mentioned but to automatically avoid this nonsense in the future I like libredirect.
Obligatory https://getindie.wiki/
Don’t use fandom, use other wikis if you can. The extension also has breezewiki support for the fandom sites that don’t have alternatives
Wikia is actual cancer. Dont validiate their claim to a concept they have no right to.
As someone who has used AdBlocker for as long as I can remember, I can’t come up with a single reason why sites should allow it. Exact same thing with the YouTube controversy. Of course I don’t like that they’re trying to prevent me from blocking the ads but I sure don’t blame them for it. Using an adblocker doesn’t necessitate for me to come up with justifications for convincing myself that what I’m doing is actually moral because it’s not. I’m perfectly capable of holding both of these two thoughts in my mind at the same time.
My test for whether behaviour is good or not is to consider what the world would be like if everyone did what I do and whether we’d all be better off for it. There one thing is for absolute certain: YouTube would not exist as a free platform. It would either not exist at all or it would be a subscription-based only.
You can have an ad-free service or you can have a free one but you can’t have both and demanding that is ridiculous. Even now, the sole reason you’re able to use Lemmy for free is because someone else is willing to take the financial hit by paying for the instance upkeep. We all just take it for granted.
Blocking ads is ALWAYS morally positive and ethical.
That’s a statement, not an argument.
If you’re old enough, you remember that people put content up for free on the pre-Youtube internet and it was a much better place when made up of only enthusiasts and hobbyists. If Youtube and all its users treating the internet as a vessel for making money went away it would be glorious.
Someone is still paying for hosting that content. That works for text, pictures and gifs but once you move to videos it starts getting expensive. I too put content on YouTube without any intention to make money from it but I still understand that it costs YouTube money.
I’m all for passion projects but it still needs to be sustainable one way or another.
Use breezewiki
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.
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.
If you don’t like Firefox mobile is there another ad blocking mobile browser that you’d suggest?
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.
Personally I use waterfox, it’s what firefox was before the ai trash was shoved into it and what it should still be.
Are Firefox forks on the table? I use IronFox and like it for mobile use.
I’m on Fennec
If you already have strong opinions about browsers, then I’m guessing this is unlikely, but if you have an iPhone, Orion is decent.
To use BreezeWiki, just replace “fandom.com” with “breezewiki.com”, and you’ll instantly be teleported to a better world
TIL
Neat!Thanks didn’t know this existed
Also wasn’t expecting to see “lisp”**
Lithp is better to prothethth lithtth
One entry in the Testimonials section links to a satire website and people might not realize that.
Nice, although I’m slightly suss about the extension wanting access to my Google data.
Tap or click the URL, change “fandom” to “antifandom”
Been doing that to skip the annoying kid/adult popup
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.
You can also add “anti” just in front of “fandom” in the URL, and all the nonsense get stripped out.
Gotta hit up breezewiki.com.
