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Re: BreezeWiki makes wiki pages on Fandom readable

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Post by thih9 »

immibis wrote: post #54
thih9 wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Curious, what was the reasoning behind the block - or its revocation?

Shitty websites make all their money from ads. That's why the page is stuffed full of ads. If you don't see the ads, they don't make any money from you, which isn't a big deal until nobody sees the ads and the site makes no money and goes bankrupt (as they rightfully should). And before anyone says anything about poor little indie websites needing money to survive: fandom is not one. Fandom is an advertising business…

I can understand that; but why revoke the ban then?

Re: BreezeWiki makes wiki pages on Fandom readable

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Post by immibis »

thih9 wrote: post #61
immibis wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Shitty websites make all their money from ads. That's why the page is stuffed full of ads. If you don't see the ads, they don't make any money from you, which isn't a big deal until nobody sees the ads and the site makes no money and goes bankrupt (as they rightfully should). And before anyone says anything about poor little indie websites needing money to survive: fandom is not one. Fandom is an advertising business…

I can understand that; but why revoke the ban then?

They can only ban it when they detect that you're using it. It's a cat and mouse game.

Re: BreezeWiki makes wiki pages on Fandom readable

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Post by ddtaylor »

p3rls wrote: post #59
ddtaylor wrote: post #19

The Path of Exile community ran far away from Fandom. Everyone should.

I've built a standalone genre-based wiki at kpopping.com, I can't believe fans let these bullshit companies run our communities. They're some of the most disgusting sociopaths imaginable. My niche is even worse though because we have websites that want to be fextralife.com when they grow up... Malware ads and porn for #1 google results with millions of views.

Congrats! Keep up the good work.

Re: BreezeWiki makes wiki pages on Fandom readable

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Post by nektro »

``` Exception raised in Racket code at response generation time: json-pointer-value: contract violation expected: json-value? given: # in: the 2nd argument of (-> (or/c json-pointer-expression? json-pointer?) json-value? json-value?) contract from: (function json-pointer-value) blaming: /json-pointer/eval.rkt (assuming the contract is correct) at: /json-pointer/eval.rkt:64:18 context...: /usr/share/racket/collects/racket/contract/private/blame.rkt:346:0: raise-blame-error /usr/share/racket/collects/racket/contract/private/arrow-higher-order.rkt:375:33 /home/cadence/breezewiki/src/search-provider-fandom.rkt:19:0: search-fandom /home/cadence/breezewiki/lib/thread-utils.rkt:27:20 ```

Re: BreezeWiki makes wiki pages on Fandom readable

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Post by never_inline »

xigoi wrote: post #41
Dwedit wrote: post #26

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.

IIRC it work when you disable Js

Re: BreezeWiki makes wiki pages on Fandom readable

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Post by thih9 »

immibis wrote: post #63
thih9 wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I can understand that; but why revoke the ban then?

They can only ban it when they detect that you're using it. It's a cat and mouse game.

I still don’t get it. So they detected the usage and banned the app, what happened that made the ban disappear?

Are you saying the app is using a different scraper? This I would get. But earlier comment[1] mentions ban revocation - this is what surprises me.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43530821

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