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
There’s more than one way to skin a cat.
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.
Fandom is such a shitshow… I was part of a wikia based wiki for more than a decade and experienced the transition following the
buyoutrebrand 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
All that boils down to enshitification for profit.
Do you have
!waliased for whois?It’s a duckduckgo shorthand (called bangs) to search directly on Wikipedia.
Oh neat! Thanks - I had no idea this was a thing
Yeah. Surprise level zero.
Fandom is pure evil. We should all get rid of it.
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.
🦎
Did someone say gex
Don’t take career advice from Joe Piscopo
The root cause is going to Fandom in first instance.
How to allow ads on school & corporate networks
Seems pretty fucking sketchy. “Please use these tricks to bypass your admin”
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…
My eyes and brain felt like me being immunosuppressed by HIV and infected by 17 different bacteria everytime i went there without ad blocker. It is a fully accurate description
I’ve been there. I’ve watched the site enshittify right in front of my own eyes
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.
Brendan Eich
All of his crimes against humanity puts him in the same circle of hell as the Koch Bros and the Mercers.
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.
javascript is one of the best programming languages in the world. is was one of the first mainstream languages to adapt features such as coroutines, imports based on filename instead of classname/library name, etc.
it does a lot of things right. haters gonna complain about the 5% efficiency lost because it doesn’t use static typing.
If you don’t like Firefox mobile is there another ad blocking mobile browser that you’d suggest?
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.
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.
Nah, Cromite doesn’t allow extensions. Other than the built in ones, it doesn’t do extensions. There was another Chromium android browser that could do extensions, Kiwi I think. But it was a smidge shady how it did its search queries so I’d avoid it.
And side note: Cromite’s Fdroid repo link is shot. It’s been down for me for month, and I tried disabling VPN or switching to other countries and i either get a timeout or not found error, similsr to this forum post. So like I’d have to keep downloadong apks to keep it up to date, and I’d rather just pray every website i use works on FF than do that.
Attached is a screenshot of Cromite browser’s “chrome://extensions” page with extensions installed and running. Also shown in screenshot is the Ublock Origin applet pinned to Cromite’s toolbar
Sheesh, you schooled me. I genuinely didn’t think it had the option for them, especially since I tried to test it with libredirect’s crx file. Is it because you have to enable developer mode in the chrome flags?
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
Oh nice! I can stop blocking fandom from my search results now.
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.
Please allow my dick and balls in your face, Fandom 🖕
Antifandom.com works great to avoid them
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.
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.
+1
Honestly this should ship with many browsers, be a default for search engines and such.
