Search engine optimisation so fandom comes up first.
100% - the game I play (Warframe) moved to hosting their own wiki, taking over from where it started on Fandom. Even with the entire gaming community trying to tell search engines that the new wiki is the source of truth, Google/Bing feed Fandom results. The Fandom wiki is “dead” compared to the real one and we use reddit/forums to tell people to not use Fandom.
Same thing with the UESP wiki for Elder Scrolls that has been around since the 90’s. It is by far the most comprehensive info site for all things Elder Scrolls, but the Elder Scrolls Fandom site overtakes it on every search result.
UESP is the best wiki in history for its purpose. Yes, even including Wikipedia.
The UESP wiki is great when you have to name some new machines (IT stuff), lotta laptops out there named Bloodthorn right now. :)
Even with ad- and popup blockers, the sidebar loads in and resizes the content just about when I would click a link. Or when you enter a search term and there is only one result, hitting enter still takes you to a one-element-listing page… Infuriating.
I haven’t tried it, but this privacy frontend sounds like something that could be a good solution
Use that along with the “LibRedirect” extension and see if it works well for you!
It’s been out a long time. It was called Wikia before it was called Fandom, and it’s always been the shit version.
Like another commenter pointed out, there were good wikis for The Elder Scrolls and Fallout, but Wikia made shitty versions, mostly copying from the older wikis.
IIRC you used to be able to block domains from Google, but I don’t think you can anymore. I would love to block every single Fandom site out there. They’re trash. I’d use IGN over them. IGN is actually not terrible for gaming guides, but they try to push paid subscriptions a bit. An ad blocker tames most of that.
There are extensions on Firefox that allow you to block results from Google.
The IndieWikiBuddy extension will automatically offer to redirect you from Fandom to other wikis on the same subject, and will block Fandom in search results.
Hm…
I tried to post a script to automatically redirect from fandom to antifandom but even using code block formatting showed up as a hot mess.
