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.

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

"our site is supported by ads"

hmmmm

"!w fandom (website)"

scroll down

Owner TPG Inc. (2018–present)

huh clicks

"TPG Inc., previously known as Texas Pacific Group and TPG Capital,[4] is an American private equity firm based in Fort Worth, Texas,[3] with primary offices in New York City and additional offices in Washington, D.C., Miami, San Francisco, and internationally. TPG manages investment funds in growth capital, venture capital, public equity, and debt investments. The firm invests in various industries, including consumer/retail, media and telecommunications, industrials, technology, travel, leisure, and health care."

interesting..hm, i see. lets what else?

Revenue Increase US$4.67 billion (2025)[1]  
Net income Increase US$185 million (2025)[1]  
AUM	Increase US$245.9 billion (2024)  
Total assets	Increase US$13.5 billion (2025)[1]  
Total equity	Increase US$4.14 billion (2025)  

fascinating

Fandom is pure evil. We should all get rid of it.

The root cause is going to Fandom in first instance.

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.

God bless weirdgloop

How to allow ads on school & corporate networks

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

Please allow my dick and balls in your face, Fandom 🖕

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

Use breezewiki

there should be a libredirect extension that gives you a bit slower but open platform instead of crap like this.

also as every comment said before, dont use brave. try fennec or ironfox.

Antifandom.com works great to avoid them

Ah, Ad-Shield. Use https://github.com/FilteringDev/tinyShield for that. Also, stop using Brave.

Use a decent browser and install uBlock Origin, it's the best ad blocker :)

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

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.

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

I just did and had 0 issues.

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.

"Please allow ads on this site"

LOL, lmao even.

Gotta hit up breezewiki.com.

I block and and all sites that demand I turn off adblockers. Like, they don’t even show up in searches.

UBlacklist FTMFW.

I just browse Fandom pages using Internet Archive (or sometimes other archival sites except for Archive.Today and I won't be explaining why here)
Also Fandom has not been good in years there where controversies such as: that incident Mcdonalds paid turning the Grimace page into a ad,intrusive ads,not much protection against vandalism and so on...

https://getindie.wiki/