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submitted 10 months ago by simple@lemm.ee to c/games@lemmy.world

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[-] EyIchFragDochNur@feddit.de 123 points 10 months ago

Could you give a summary? I stopped using youtube.

[-] simple@lemm.ee 248 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

The video pretty much describes why Fandom is so bad and why many games are moving their wikis to alternative services, and why you should stop using it in general. Some examples include:

Ads everywhere, including autoplaying video ads that play another ad when they're done. There are also ads sneakily inserted in the middle of articles that are related to the wiki, like a Gamespot review (Gamespot is owned by Fandom)
A sidebar you can't remove that promotes their content
Fandom hijacked the community's Mcdonald's wiki to turn it into a giant advertisement
Accounts that are 4 days old can bypass restrictions and easily vandalize pages
Fandom sometimes introduces things nobody wants, such as AI generated answers that are usually wrong, take up the top half of the page, and with no way for wiki admins to remove it. They removed it after a lot of backlash but still...
When people fork their wikis to other sites, fandom refuses to let admins delete their old wikis. This makes new wikis difficult to start because Fandom usually ends up as the top result on search engines, even if they're old abandoned wikis.

[-] GrammatonCleric@lemmy.world 59 points 10 months ago

Fandom seems like my experience on Fextralife

[-] buddhabound@lemmy.world 52 points 10 months ago

And then you learn about Fextra's embedded twitch player that artificially inflates their twitch view count and pushes out smaller content creators who are actually trying to engage with a game's audience.

[-] simple@lemm.ee 21 points 10 months ago

God, I hate constantly seeing their channel with 50k+ views on Twitch. It's insane that embedding the player throughout their entire website isn't against TOS.

[-] captainphatty@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

The good thing is that they are going to stop abusers of the embed system like Fextralife, the new policy was announced at TwitchCon https://blog.twitch.tv/en/2023/10/20/everything-we-announced-at-twitchcon-las-vegas/

[-] pyrflie@lemm.ee 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

You can block the element behind the player with the UBlock Origin element picker and it won't comeback. I took the time to build this into my UBlock filters list since I regularly use their shitty WotR Wiki. I would kill for a good WotR Wiki.