“Attention assault” on Fandom

Article note: It's the union of a bunch of bad shit. Hosting wikis is ...not actually very difficult or expensive.. but somehow the fandom folks attracted $40M of investment and the investors want returns, leading to a shitstorm of ads and tracking. Leaving is hard not just because Fandom will use hired admins to prevent mass deletion, but because search engines - especially google - treat site-size as a positive indicator, so even an abandoned fandom wiki will be hard to out-rank. I miss the old Internet _so much_.