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Does Wikipedia really need my donations? (infosec.pub)
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Every now and then I'll get an email from someone higher up in Wikipedia asking for a donation. I don't really mind a tenner but I don't know if it pads the pockets of corporate management or actual contributors. Also, are they really short of money or is this tugging at emotional strings a play at something else? I wish Wikipedia survives but there's a lot of projects I need to donate to and I have a budget.

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[โ€“] Badabinski@kbin.earth 12 points 2 months ago (5 children)

You're an absolute hero. I'm easily irritated by ads, and fandom has driven me to genuine rage a couple of times when I'm on mobile and only have DNS-based adblocking some of the time. It's a wiki, for Christ's sake, so why does it need so, so many adsโ€ฝ It's just static content most of the time!

edit: to provide more context, this is a frontend for fandom wikis that strips out the bullshit.

[โ€“] ShareMySims@sh.itjust.works 12 points 2 months ago

Happy to help! The fandom pages are absolute garbage, breezewiki really is a godsend.

I found out about it on here: https://libredirect.github.io/, I'm not sure how up to date it is, but there are definitely some other useful links to explore

[โ€“] LwL@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

If you want to hate them more, there were cases of wikis moving off the site and fandom just deciding to restore the content after the maintainers deleted it, claiming everything written on the site is their property. Absolute shithole and I refuse to use it if there are alternatives.

[โ€“] M500@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 months ago

I hate fandom so much. Their site is very annoying on mobile.

[โ€“] Anarki_@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)
[โ€“] MigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Use adblockers?

[โ€“] Badabinski@kbin.earth 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I do, but certain Android browsers don't support plugins. I have to use a specific browser for compatibility reasons with some work shit (I do on-call stuff). I need that to just work, so I can't use, say, Firefox for Android. I use multiple browsers on computers, but I just can't be bothered on my phone. That leaves me with DNS-based ad blockers. Those work almost as well, but only when I'm home or VPNed home. I don't want to use a hosted service for privacy reasons, and I don't want to expose a DNS server on the internet. This means that when I can't VPN or I forget to, I get fandom rage. I'm sure I could do something to address this, but I have bigger fish to fry right now. The nice ad-free fandom frontend sounds like a great compromise to me.

[โ€“] MigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

All I can say is don't access fandom websites on your work phone

[โ€“] Badabinski@kbin.earth 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Time to see if this comes across properly without escaping:

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