I disabled Brave shields to use this site and then my phone turned into an air fryer from all the bloatware it was loading. Temps went up like 20 DC.
The spite I have for fandom… is… so… intense
Numbers go brrrr
Fandom.com suuuuuuuuucks
I use this bullshit to redirect from Fandom links:
https://www.reddit.com/r/pathofexile/comments/10187i7/how_to_filter_out_the_fandom_wiki_in_google/
- Install uBlock Origin extension (available for both Chrome & Firefox)
- Click on the extension, go to Setting (or Dashboard), go to My Filters.
- Paste in the bottom
google.*##.g:has(a[href*="pathofexile.fandom.com"]) google.*##a[href*="pathofexile.fandom.com"]:upward(1)But for any Fandom links.
There’s more than one way to skin a cat.
Use breezewiki
Also, don’t use Brave.
Brendan Eich is both vocally and financially opposed to LGBT+ equality. The browser has actively enabled targeted ads. They’ve actively promoted crypto and have been in bed with specific crypto brokers to promote its use. They’ve been adding their own promo codes to URLs for private benefit.
They don’t give a shit about privacy. Don’t touch them with a barge pole.
Brendan Eich
All of his crimes against humanity puts him in the same circle of hell as the Koch Bros and the Mercers.
I don’t mean to make light of the bigotry, but the fact that that fuckwad inflicted JavaScript upon the world is reason enough to hate him and avoid his shit by itself. He has a proven track record of incompetence and terrible design decisions.
javascript is one of the best programming languages in the world. is was one of the first mainstream languages to adapt features such as coroutines, imports based on filename instead of classname/library name, etc.
it does a lot of things right. haters gonna complain about the 5% efficiency lost because it doesn’t use static typing.
If you don’t like Firefox mobile is there another ad blocking mobile browser that you’d suggest?
Personally I use waterfox, it’s what firefox was before the ai trash was shoved into it and what it should still be.
Are Firefox forks on the table? I use IronFox and like it for mobile use.
I’m on Fennec
If you already have strong opinions about browsers, then I’m guessing this is unlikely, but if you have an iPhone, Orion is decent.
Cromite has a built in adblocker but it also allows you to install extensions.
I have Ublock Origin and Libredirect installed in Cromite on my phone.
Nah, Cromite doesn’t allow extensions. Other than the built in ones, it doesn’t do extensions. There was another Chromium android browser that could do extensions, Kiwi I think. But it was a smidge shady how it did its search queries so I’d avoid it.
And side note: Cromite’s Fdroid repo link is shot. It’s been down for me for month, and I tried disabling VPN or switching to other countries and i either get a timeout or not found error, similsr to this forum post. So like I’d have to keep downloadong apks to keep it up to date, and I’d rather just pray every website i use works on FF than do that.
Attached is a screenshot of Cromite browser’s “chrome://extensions” page with extensions installed and running. Also shown in screenshot is the Ublock Origin applet pinned to Cromite’s toolbar
Sheesh, you schooled me. I genuinely didn’t think it had the option for them, especially since I tried to test it with libredirect’s crx file. Is it because you have to enable developer mode in the chrome flags?
To use BreezeWiki, just replace “fandom.com” with “breezewiki.com”, and you’ll instantly be teleported to a better world
TIL
Neat!Thanks didn’t know this existed
Also wasn’t expecting to see “lisp”**
Lithp is better to prothethth lithtth
One entry in the Testimonials section links to a satire website and people might not realize that.
Oh nice! I can stop blocking fandom from my search results now.
Nice, although I’m slightly suss about the extension wanting access to my Google data.
this is extra funny because as anyone who’s been to fandom without an ad blocker knows, the site is 80% aids
aids
You know, that’s not wrong…
My eyes and brain felt like me being immunosuppressed by HIV and infected by 17 different bacteria everytime i went there without ad blocker. It is a fully accurate description
I’ve been there. I’ve watched the site enshittify right in front of my own eyes
Firefox with Ublock Origin doesn’t have this issue. (Or whatever Firefox derivative you prefer.) Please stop using Chromium-based browsers. Google is actively trying to kill adblocking. Stick with Gecko.
🦎
Did someone say gex
Don’t take career advice from Joe Piscopo
“our site is supported by ads”
hmmmm
“!w fandom (website)”
scroll down
Owner TPG Inc. (2018–present)
huh clicks
“TPG Inc., previously known as Texas Pacific Group and TPG Capital,[4] is an American private equity firm based in Fort Worth, Texas,[3] with primary offices in New York City and additional offices in Washington, D.C., Miami, San Francisco, and internationally. TPG manages investment funds in growth capital, venture capital, public equity, and debt investments. The firm invests in various industries, including consumer/retail, media and telecommunications, industrials, technology, travel, leisure, and health care.”
interesting…hm, i see. lets what else?
Revenue Increase US$4.67 billion (2025)[1] Net income Increase US$185 million (2025)[1] AUM Increase US$245.9 billion (2024) Total assets Increase US$13.5 billion (2025)[1] Total equity Increase US$4.14 billion (2025)fascinating
All that boils down to enshitification for profit.
Yeah. Surprise level zero.
Do you have
!waliased for whois?It’s a duckduckgo shorthand (called bangs) to search directly on Wikipedia.
Oh neat! Thanks - I had no idea this was a thing
Fandom has become progressively more fucked and unusable over the years. Can’t remember the last time I visited that site, it’s been a long while, but I remember being more than mildly infuriated.
You can also add “anti” just in front of “fandom” in the URL, and all the nonsense get stripped out.
Obligatory https://getindie.wiki/
Don’t use fandom, use other wikis if you can. The extension also has breezewiki support for the fandom sites that don’t have alternatives
Nice. Thanks.
How to allow ads on school & corporate networks
Seems pretty fucking sketchy. “Please use these tricks to bypass your admin”
Well thats because brave is shit. Try a firefox fork like waterfox with ublock origin.
I just did and had 0 issues.
Gotta hit up breezewiki.com.
The root cause is going to Fandom in first instance.
Ah, Ad-Shield. Use https://github.com/FilteringDev/tinyShield for that. Also, stop using Brave.
What’s wrong with brave?
CEO is a bigot
Brendan Eich can go fuck himself
Agreed and upvoted but the browser is good. It works better than pretty much anything out there especially on android. Firefox for me is getting slower on desktop for some reason. Websites take a lot of time to load.
Have you tried Firefox on Android? You can actually have plugins. It’s the only mobile browser I know of that supports that.
I haven’t had your issue with Firefox getting slower though. I use Zen, but it’s still Firefox and it seems fine. Maybe it’s just the mainline branch getting slower? Could it be AI? Do you have it toggled off?
I tried literally everything (troubleshooting mode, uninstall all extensions, use the default state on a new profile, use the default state on a fresh install, use arkenfox user.js, etc) before installing brave origin. Even tried Librewolf. But seems like a Gecko issue for me. I was later told to diagnose what is slowing it down using the network tab but I had already switched by then and didn’t want to troubleshoot anymore when Brave Origin works flawlessly for me.
Also on Android I don’t need any plugins other than an ad-blocker which brave has built in. Only downside to Brave is that I have to turn off their Crypto bullshit. So yeah brave ticks all the boxes for me currently.
I didn’t think I needed plugins on mobile until I had the option. I still don’t have as many as desktop, but there are some incredibly useful ones. things like Indie Wiki Buddy, for avoiding Fandom, as an example.
My use-case for browsers is just searching stuff, opening a website, reading stuff—the basics. Even on desktop the only extensions I use other than ad-blockers are Bitwarden, Sponsor Block and Return YT dislikes.
