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Adding autoplay videos that are tangentially related to the wiki page. Said videos take about 10 seconds to show up and will cause the screen to scroll to a di

by blharr 2y ago

Adding autoplay videos that are tangentially related to the wiki page. Said videos take about 10 seconds to show up and will cause the screen to scroll to a different point from where you are currently reading Their privacy policy is exhaustive, and you opt in by default to sharing your data with Google and 7 other analytics providers UI noise like "share to Instagram/YouTube/LinkedIn" that probably 0.1% of people even consider using When you're on a specific game wiki, you care only about that wiki content, but fandom places a Fandom navigation bar and side menu Their default email strategy sent almost daily updates for random posts on (unrelated) FANDOM community when I made a couple comments on a specific wiki a decade ago.

WorldMaker 2y ago
Also, on mobile the video ads plus Fandom navigation bar now take up a sticky combined 50% or more of the viewport until you find the close button. Also, Fandom got its start by taking advantage of the easy, permissive nature of CC licenses of major early wikis, including much of Fandom started as chunks of even Wikipedia itself that got excised for "relevance" or other "non-encylopedia" factors. Even in some of the cases where communities have decided to leave Fandom, Fandom believes it remains their right to scrape the community's new site and not need to include links back to the "real" home, so Fandom itself becomes an SEO disaster for the community. Even communities that had hoped to protect themselves from such situations by choosing a more restrictive CC license with the NC (Non Commercial) clause have been struggling with revoking Fandom's access to their content against Fandom's legal team saying that Fandom's commercial waver to the content was both retroactive and in perpetuity, and those wikis would have known that at the time.

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Adding autoplay videos that are tangentially related to the wiki page. Said videos take about 10 seconds to show up and will cause the screen to scroll to a di

by blharr 2y ago

WorldMaker 2y ago
Also, on mobile the video ads plus Fandom navigation bar now take up a sticky combined 50% or more of the viewport until you find the close button. Also, Fandom got its start by taking advantage of the easy, permissive nature of CC licenses of major early wikis, including much of Fandom started as chunks of even Wikipedia itself that got excised for "relevance" or other "non-encylopedia" factors. Even in some of the cases where communities have decided to leave Fandom, Fandom believes it remains their right to scrape the community's new site and not need to include links back to the "real" home, so Fandom itself becomes an SEO disaster for the community. Even communities that had hoped to protect themselves from such situations by choosing a more restrictive CC license with the NC (Non Commercial) clause have been struggling with revoking Fandom's access to their content against Fandom's legal team saying that Fandom's commercial waver to the content was both retroactive and in perpetuity, and those wikis would have known that at the time.