Board Thread:Technical Updates/@comment-126761-20191203203854/@comment-168424-20191207034859

Kirkburn wrote:

Here are the release notes for Fandom's code release scheduled for December 4, 2019:


 * NOTABLE: We will permanently redirect anonymous users from file pages (those ending in ) to the first article page where a file was used, to improve Fandom's valuation by search engines like Google. Those users can still find important file information such as its description, licensing and source in the image lightbox. This change does not affect logged-in users. For more context on this change, please see this forum thread.

As I mentioned in the related forum thread, this behavior likely violates the licenses of many images on FANDOM... at least the ones that aren't using the Fair Use justification (which is admittedly probably 95%+).