User blog comment:Tedgill/Making Ads Better: How We're Going to Do It/@comment-876022-20170131110747

Advertisement on Wikia has been terrible for so long. Understanding conversations over the past five years (noting when the CEO talked to a specific user for the RuneScape Wiki) in that the experience has never really improved.

What I am hoping for is a ban on leaderboards and other advertisements within content. In the rail is fine and on the header and footer is okay. The experience is horrifying on mobile devices when you are served video advertisements. Also hate the advertisements in the landing board when clicking an external link.

Even the company who makes the game loves the content on the wiki but does not like the insane amount of advertisements on any given page. I've seen a response to Cqm's comment earlier but I must stress that the current situation is no good and if the solution doesn't eliminate bandwidth hogging placements then this will be no good.

On social media the main issue people take against the wiki is not that it is editable by nearly anyone, but that advertisements take up a lot of space. I know many recommend adblock software because it goes to only the host (Wikia Inc). To get that point where users would stop telling others to use said software means serious changes need to be done. Reminds me of how much more advert driven Venus was to become.

I hope to see the changes listed in the blog happen this calendar year.