User blog comment:Brandon Rhea/Intro to Wiki Modernization/@comment-28191207-20170306210732/@comment-11515627-20170307025428

As great as ad blockers are for people who want to actually read an article without being hindered from doing so (you know, the purpose of a wiki and the reason you get any traffic at all), my biggest concern is for my visitors, or what other people see. I can tolerate whatever, but I want the consumers of my work to be able to enjoy my work. I always hesitate driving fans of the series I create content for to the wiki because it's not a tolerable experience, and from what I've seen of these new videos so far, they're definitely not helping. Even if you're still experimenting with positioning, the fact that you guys even considered putting a video at the top of the page, pushing everything down so you have to scroll to read the opening sentence, just goes to show it's ads first, wiki second. No wonder the service no longer has "wiki" in its name.

Not to mention, having an ad blocker doesn't prevent the video from showing. If I wanted to watch videos, I'd go to YouTube. Fandom isn't a video service, and trying to be one out of the need for ads is pathetic.