Earlier today I was browsing through some wikias when suddenly after loading a page. The entire layout of the webpage suddenly changed. It went to looking like this.
After some tinkering. I found out that turning off my adblock extension seems to have return the web layout to normal. Is this a glitch or something in the fandom web design because this hasn't happen before today.
Has this happened to anyone else besides me?
Same issue here as well, and if it wasn't for this post I probably wouldn't have been able to figure out what it was.
It affects every single wiki, as well as this forum. Pretty much the whole site aside from the frontpage.
Any wiki. Try the MCU wiki
This is happening for me too, on Google Chrome. I tried installing a different adblocker, but that didn't help.
It effects AdBlock plus and Ublock. If Fandom is doing that for ad boosts, welcome to irrelevance. Most people will not turn off ad blocks to surf the web, and most userbase only stands the service cause of adblocks. Maybe, just maybe Fandom should focus of developing trusted ads program with the userbase and not fight them.
This looks to be happening to Google Chrome users. But that is a good 60% of the internet. Good luck staying relevant. I love this service like anyone else on here, but the day they battle ad block software is the day I step out. No one surfs the internet without protection software. Ads are the source of danger, so ad blocks have to be on.
Taken from other forum thread...
Devilmanozzy wrote:
Fngplg wrote: i believe, the adblock was triggered by "ads.css" part of the main css path. add @@.wikia.nocookie.net to adblock rules - it will exclude the domain from processing.
Browsed the MCU wiki for about 5 minutes, but no rendering problems were encountered.
Using Firefox on mobile (user agent is Safari on OS X to prevent the mobile design)
Default user agent:
Mozilla/5.0 (Android 6.0.1; Mobile; rv:66.0) Gecko/66.0 Firefox/66.0
Switched user agent:
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_14_3) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/11.1.1 Safari/605.1.15
Devilmanozzy wrote:
Fngplg wrote: i believe, the adblock was triggered by "ads.css" part of the main css path. add @@.wikia.nocookie.net to adblock rules - it will exclude the domain from processing.
Thank you that helps.
I personally think that ads are the bane of human civilization with how they are in your face all the time. Because of how high quality they have to be as well as automatically play. They slow down the loading of websites and can even crash them, which is why I don't tolerate them.
If I could. I would make all ads 144p quality and only 320 by 240 max and out of the way, because of how well I am sick of them.
I agree. It's so annoying.
I'm gonna use firefox for the time being.
I have had this problem before and it always seemed to be browser independent. Based on what I could see of my computer's resource usage, I believe this is what happens when your computer does not have sufficient memory available to download all the resources needed to display that page. This may occur occasionally if you are running another program or just have a lot of tabs open.
