Board Thread:Support Requests - Getting Technical/@comment-174.109.63.103-20141110134427/@comment-26437440-20160313185112

Yeah, Wikia really overdoes it. I've been on plenty of other sites who use ads, but they're very reasonable, they aren't plastered everywhere, and they aren't interrupting content. I make it a goal to whitelist any site I use that keeps the ads to a fair and unobtrusive amount.

Being a wiki site where people will go to read about a character or look up some quick info, ads need to be kept out of the way, yet they slow pages to a crawl and tend to get in the way.

Like this is what I see logged in with adblock. Everything is visible, readable, and the page took no more than a second to load. http://i.imgur.com/bp0lMm4l.png

I log out (still with adblock), the page takes a bit longer to load as adblock won't block these giant taboola ads without a filter. Already I have to scroll a bit to see the content. http://i.imgur.com/IVTRtT1l.png

And finally I turn adblock off...page takes minutes to load, I get a HUGE autoplaying video ad taking up the whole top space I have to close, after closing it the ad actually takes over the wiki's nice theme and adds a large banner above the already big taboola ad, I have 2 other taboola ads, the lovely ads in the middle of content, and 2 ads at the bottom (one a video). At this point I can't even see the title of the page I'm viewing http://i.imgur.com/eIEmG6fl.png http://i.imgur.com/IYHVlCGl.png

If I were someone without an account just trying to look up info on a game I play, I would've already left the page and started heading elsewhere. It's a very bad impression to those using Wikia for info with no intention to make an account.