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“Attention assault” on Fandom

2024-06-16 fandom is a wiki website (allegedly) if you are unfortunate enough to browse a fandom wiki without an ad blocker, you will experience what i like to call "attention assault" upon opening a fandom page (for me, it was the hollow knight wiki), you will note the very subtle aroma of a 1/3 page banner ad, placed ever so daintily at the top of the page. my ad was for furniture - ah yes, just what i wanted.

... scrolling further down, i reach the end of the wiki page, and there are two banner ads waiting, as if to bid me farewell after my arduous journey through this shit-ass website. fandom generates enough money to retain a staff of 300+, and rent several offices, including a very beautiful building in downtown san francisco. terraria animal crossing stardew valley EVE Online Factorio dota2 ... AND MANY, MANY MORE[4] over 300 wikis have migrated away from fandom, and i can only hope that this trajectory accelerates.

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