Because of my heavy adblocking and other extensions that make nasty sites look perfectly clean and usable, I often forget that other people don't see the same website that I do.
Fandom sites are terrible even with ad blocking.
BreezeWiki makes wiki pages on Fandom readable
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Re: BreezeWiki makes wiki pages on Fandom readable
#42As long as nothing happens to Memory Alpha
Re: BreezeWiki makes wiki pages on Fandom readable
#43When i try this I get:
> Sorry! Fandom isn't allowing BreezeWiki to show pages right now.
Personally I think it should be illegal for webshites to use any legal or technical means to block people from deshitifying their webshites.
Re: BreezeWiki makes wiki pages on Fandom readable
#44Because of my heavy adblocking and other extensions that make nasty sites look perfectly clean and usable, I often forget that other people don't see the same website that I do.
Fandom sites are terrible even with ad blocking.
Hence other extensions like uMatrix and "Cleaner Fandom" extension.
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#45Re: BreezeWiki makes wiki pages on Fandom readable
#46Fandom is one of those sites I want to like but just can't. How can the developers of that site be satisfied with their work?
Because their intention is to make money off other people's content with ads, and lots of ads.
So I'd say their satisfied
Re: BreezeWiki makes wiki pages on Fandom readable
#47Fandom is one of those sites I want to like but just can't. How can the developers of that site be satisfied with their work?
Probably burnishing their resumes to join DOGE next :D
Re: BreezeWiki makes wiki pages on Fandom readable
#48Self-hosting breezewiki -- even on the same machine that you browse from -- gets neatly around the way fandom wikis block the breezewiki public nodes. I've got it self-hosted and now I never see that damn fandom interface.
We need a browser or extension that does this stuff automatically in the browser, so it looks like a normal browser request. By "this stuff" I mean BreezeWiki, Invidious, Nitter, whatever that one for Reddit was called.
Fully in the browser is unfortunately impossible/unworkable due to CORS (basically the same technique that prevents someone from easily faking a bank login page to leak your details/allowing for XSS attacks prevents you from doing this locally).
We're essentially reliant on these serverside solutions to proxy requests because that's the easiest way to do cross-origin requests without making whatever browser deity you annoyed that morning suddenly angry at you. (Extensions can mark domains to be allowed to run on, but this is restricted by the manifest, allowing for really easy whack-a-mole by server authors, not to mention the fact that each update would need signing from Mozilla/Google.)
Irritatingly, the same mechanism that's used to stop fraudulent sites can also be used as an easy deterrent against deshittification interfaces.
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#49[dead]
Re: BreezeWiki makes wiki pages on Fandom readable
#50I prefer not to contribute traffic to fandom pages at all, directly or indirectly.