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The user-hostile shit-down-your-throat user experience. Watching something that you loved and was genuinely useful and important in your life being utterly des
by ergonaught 2y ago
The user-hostile shit-down-your-throat user experience.
Watching something that you loved and was genuinely useful and important in your life being utterly destroyed by this garbage is pretty motivating to "complaining" and "writing articles".
What compelled you to comment about the compulsion?
Geez.
- TZubiri 2y agoIt's a simple concept. You pay for services. Some services are free and funded by ads. Be thankful for the free shit instead of being salty about having to "pay" with ads.
- dchftcs 2y agoI think people have a unique edge here to counter your argument because most of the work that goes into fandom wikis are from unpaid volunteers, and they have every right to move somewhere esle.
- JustLeafy 2y agoThe problem here isn't necessarily being a free service and being run on a few ads, the problem is loading 15 to 20 advertisements, as well as the path of enshittification.
- watwut 2y agoIt is simple concept - just because part of your business plan is to give out some stuff for free and then lock the users, it does not make you uncriticizable. There is no reason to be thankful to Fandom in particular.
- ergonaught 2y ago"Paying" with ads and having the experience utterly ruined, highjacked in fact, by those ads, are distinct things. You already understand this unless you're an adtech executive, but you're picking nits because you don't want to engage with the point.
- account42 2y agoSo what you are saying is it is not actually a free service but a commercial venture that you are paying for with your attention if you don't use an ad blocker? Doesn't that contradict your original comment?