Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24739709-20151217190208/@comment-452-20151218070142

I still haven't seen the Cthulhu notice, due to my filters being stricter than most, and I also haven't seen any notice in the "bottom-left of the screen". I seem to remember those notices being in the bottom-right, but in any case, I haven't seen any notices like that for a very long time, as I have them blocked via CSS due to incessant spamming.

So with the removal of "by other users", I am now breaking the letter of the TOU, regardless of intent.

No law or rule should ever be written which allows for something that was not intended.

Incidentally, ad-blocking is already prohibited under the TOU via: "User Conduct > You further agree: > You will not: (ii) interfere or attempt to interfere with the proper working of the Site or any activities conducted on the Site;" where "the proper working of the site" is "serving ads to you".


 * edit: Whether or not they have ever enforced this is completely and utterly irrelevant.

If the Company does not exercise or enforce any right, remedy, or provision of these Terms of Use, this shall not constitute a waiver of such right or provision in that or any other instance.

Wikia has left themselves many intentional loopholes in the TOU. My favourite being that "obstruct the proper functioning and view" can mean whatever they choose to apply it to. For instance, you can't add links to the end of the "On the Wiki" nav, because adding a link "obstructs the proper functioning and view" of "no links being there". (This is not a hypothetical, this is the literal reason they cited.)