Use breezewiki
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this is extra funny because as anyone who's been to fandom without an ad blocker knows, the site is 80% aids
"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
Do you have !w aliased for whois?
It's a duckduckgo shorthand (called bangs) to search directly on Wikipedia.
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.
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.
How to allow ads on school & corporate networks
Seems pretty fucking sketchy. "Please use these tricks to bypass your admin"
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
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 with 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.
Well thats because brave is shit. Try a firefox fork like waterfox with ublock origin.
I just did and had 0 issues.
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.
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
Use a decent browser and install uBlock Origin, it's the best ad blocker :)
What happens if you tap "I'm not using an ad blocker"?
Tap or click the URL, change "fandom" to "antifandom"
Been doing that to skip the annoying kid/adult popup
I block and and all sites that demand I turn off adblockers. Like, they don’t even show up in searches.
UBlacklist FTMFW.
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.
Ah, Ad-Shield. Use https://github.com/FilteringDev/tinyShield for that. Also, stop using Brave.
What’s wrong with brave?
CEO is a bigot
Agreed and upvoted but the browser is good. It works better than pretty much anything out there especially on android. Firefox for me is getting slower on desktop for some reason. Websites take a lot of time to load.
Have you tried Firefox on Android? You can actually have plugins. It's the only mobile browser I know of that supports that.
I haven't had your issue with Firefox getting slower though. I use Zen, but it's still Firefox and it seems fine. Maybe it's just the mainline branch getting slower? Could it be AI? Do you have it toggled off?
I tried literally everything (troubleshooting mode, uninstall all extensions, use the default state on a new profile, use the default state on a fresh install, use arkenfox user.js, etc) before installing brave origin. Even tried Librewolf. But seems like a Gecko issue for me. I was later told to diagnose what is slowing it down using the network tab but I had already switched by then and didn't want to troubleshoot anymore when Brave Origin works flawlessly for me.
Also on Android I don't need any plugins other than an ad-blocker which brave has built in. Only downside to Brave is that I have to turn off their Crypto bullshit. So yeah brave ticks all the boxes for me currently.
I didn't think I needed plugins on mobile until I had the option. I still don't have as many as desktop, but there are some incredibly useful ones. things like Indie Wiki Buddy, for avoiding Fandom, as an example.
My use-case for browsers is just searching stuff, opening a website, reading stuff—the basics. Even on desktop the only extensions I use other than ad-blockers are Bitwarden, Sponsor Block and Return YT dislikes.
Since you're into YouTube extensions, also consider adding Enhancer for YouTube and DeArrow. The former adds more features to the player (my favorite is the ability to fine-tune playback speed with the scroll wheel), and the latter removes the clickbait thumbnails and returns to the old method of auto-generating the thumbnail (taking a screenshot of an interesting segment of the video and using that as the thumbnail, just like the old days). That way the content has to actually be interesting before I consider clicking on it.
And on Android the only thing you need is YouTube Morphe, which is a modded version of the YT app that includes an adblocker, SponsorBlock, DeArrow, Enhancer, an AI slop filter—and so much more—built right into the app. It's a must-have for any Android user who watches YouTube.
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/
- Install uBlock Origin extension (available for both Chrome & Firefox)
- Click on the extension, go to Setting (or Dashboard), go to My Filters.
- 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.
Breeze wiki is already mentioned but to automatically avoid this nonsense in the future I like libredirect.
Wikia is actual cancer. Dont validiate their claim to a concept they have no right to.
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...
Never had a problem getting on that shit site. It’s Safari ands Wipr2 on t my phone or it’s that or Firefox with uBlock Origin on the desktop.
These sites are fighting for the scraps while more and more people just ask the chatbot for the information.
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.
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.
Blocking ads is ALWAYS morally positive and ethical.


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