Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-1824272-20151212103441/@comment-1824272-20151215215845

BertH wrote:

I can chime in and offer a correction to one element of this discussion. There are definitely not 25 ad placements on any Wikia page. Ad blockers detect all manner of things, from invisible "tracking pixels" to multiple aspects of a single ad. Heh, well it doesn't matter when it feels like there's 25 ads placed on a Wikia page anyway. But the fact of the matter is, only 1-2 elements are ever removed from a Community Wiki page, whereas ~25 elements are removed from any other Wikia page, which just puts things into perspective in the first place about how prevalent the issue is.

BertH wrote:

More generally, please know that as both Wikia and the web advertising world continue to evolve, Wikia is working to make improvements in the overall user experience around ads. It does matter to us, and your feedback is heard. It'd be nice to actually get some transparency on this, since I do not remember an official Wikia staff member mentioning anything about ads on Wikia ever until this very reply, and the situation has gotten worse and worse as time has gone on, for both desktop and mobile sites. Make blog posts, make announcement threads on the forums, reply to comments about this, anything. Just show us you'd actually like to respond to feedback and not purposefully destroy our browsers and data usage.