Why YSK: Because fandom's website is complete garbage, it's filled with ads, has a horrible UI and has auto playing videos for no reason. For some reason a lot of game wikis still use that website.
Believe it or not, it’s the same guy that made Wikipedia. Apparently he was sad he couldn’t monetize it, so went ahead and made the cancer that is fandom.
Disclaimer, this is something I’ve read on different threads on reddit, so take it with a pinch of salt.
That’s a great resource - I enjoy fandom’s content (although some is dreadfully written) but the site UI is horrible.
One thing to note about BreezeWiki, is that it doesn’t seem to have everything on Fandom - for example, I searched for Twin Peaks, and got this message:
breezewiki.com doesn’t have this page saved.
However it looks like we can request that it be added by the admin, so that’s something.
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I haven't seen ads in years (thanks ublock origin), but the wiki fandom pages are by far the absolute worst when it comes to the cookie consent pop up, they have no "reject all", and it seems like you have to scroll on forever manually deselecting dozens and dozens of individual tick boxes, I won't even click through to that site anymore, it's enraging.
Just had a quick look for my recent addiction, the Alto's mobile games, and neither are on there, but say Sims is, so I guess they didn't just copy all the fandom pages, and are doing it by demand, or popularity? Either way, it's better than no alternative to the fandom wikis, so I'll take it!
I haven't seen ads in years (thanks ublock origin), but the wiki fandom pages are by far the absolute worst when it comes to the cookie consent pop up
If you're already using uBlock Origin, you can add a list called EasyList Cookie under Filters > Annoyances and also not see most cookie consent popups for years.
I just always click "accept all" and have my browser purge all cookies on exit other than a few whitelisted sites. And I have various plugins to block the flagrant cross-site tracking services. Same thing I did before the EU did their cookie directive.
I don't think that the EU's actual intent behind the cookie directive was to literally provide a UI to reject cookies, because trusting the remote end rather than your local browser is kind of fundamentally a broken security model. I think that their aim was to try to increase public awareness of all the cookies that websites are storing by having websites constantly throw up dialogs talking about them.
Honestly, if a site doesn't make it convenient for me to reject their bullshit, I'm happy to look elsewhere, there's very little information nowadays you can't find on at least a couple of sites, and for anything else, there are communities to ask.
And you're probably right - I don't really trust that my selections are respected (both on individual sites and on my browser), and often wonder if it's just an illusion of choice more than anything else, but I'd still rather have it than not.
My plan is to eventually set up a pi-hole and be done with much of this noise, but I've decided it'll have to wait for when I upgrade to a new machine which I hope to set up much better than this one lol
Fandom uses Mediawiki; if you're familiar with git -- a popular revision control tool that a lot of computer programmers use today -- you can also use git-remote-mediawiki to use git to gateway a fandom wiki to and from a local git repository.
Hell, even without the adblocker it's rough. So much noise. So much irrelevant shite on the sides. Things fading in and out while you're reading. Autoplaying videos are so annoying. To top it off, often the content itself isn't even that good.
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