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Official Minecraft wiki editors so furious at Fandom's 'degraded' functionality and popups they're overwhelmingly voting to leave the site (www.pcgamer.com)
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Here's hoping they migrate to wiki.gg as Terraria's contributors have a while ago.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If ad companies would be paid according to customer conversion rate instead of how many ads they spam everywhere, it would collapse within a financial quarter.

Thinking that people support a brand or product that constantly annoys them is next-level stupid, but it's their main strategy. Google's conversion rate is less than 4% and instead of realizing that spamming trillions of ads on every site is causing that abysmal rate, they double down and get off to bigger "reach".

Also, Google lied to customers of their TrueView ads and just presented people muted autoplay ads instead. Here's an analysis about that.

https://adalytics.io/blog/invalid-google-video-partner-trueview-ads

tl;dr the only one benefitting from ads is Google.