adblock sold out along time ago, and its white listing ads that pay them, ublock origin is a must these days.
adblock isnt even the same guy that made it anymore, its some corporation.
adblock sold out along time ago, and its white listing ads that pay them, ublock origin is a must these days.
adblock isnt even the same guy that made it anymore, its some corporation.
I've had issues with WoWhead too, but mainly since every time I visit the website it crashes my WoW.
"If you are what you HAVE and you lose what you have, what then are you? But if you are what you ARE and you lose what you have, no man controls your destiny".
Wowhead is horrific for so long now.
Its faster to fucking google the quest name, click on the link in google and then be directed to the wowhead page, than search the term on wowhead...
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some of the legitimate scripting wowhead does seems to be resource-intensive also; the little flyout tables of contents they use seem to cause delays, as does the calendar app on the main page. Fortunately you can also use ublock to stop both of those things from loading (this improved the site's performance noticeably, in my experience.)
you can also avoid some performance issues by not loading the front page of wowhead at all; searching the site using google (or chrome navbar search) will almost always return whatever page you're looking for, and let you bypass all the junk on their front page
The site is absolutely horrible to browse now with adds literally fucking everywhere. I've tried many different adblockers, but none work. Currently using this "UBlock Origin" but its the same thing, no ads are actually blocked. Can't use the site until this is resolved.
As with too many sites, trying to fight adblock instead of fixing the real problem.
Not that there are ads, but the nature of them.
People arguing we are the bad guys are simply stupid.
Look at how even google is getting involved with a set of "standards" for advertisements.
If they can actually be what they claim, and not bought off- then that should speak volumes.
Though plenty of things which should have done that already have fallen on deaf ears.
An idiot won't be convinced by facts or logic.
Wowhead is trying to blackmail players into making it harder for player base to just the site for information if the player base doesn't pay the sub fee's they want......even though 99.9% of the information up there for quests and what not, came from the player base free of charge....the player base never charged Wowhead for information they found....the player base was happy to help out fellow players but Wowhead decided to blackmail us now....all they care about is $$. Even some of the white Knights of Wowhead have said either pay up or screw you.
Eh. I use Ghostery and only that. Wowhead leads in about 1 second.
You're a bit "special" aren't you? I assume you expect free Twitch subs as well because you give MMOC these informational posts? Come on now.
Wowhead is free to make money the way they see fit. It's a commercial site. Just like this one is.
WowDB is fully functional alternative, so you could stop using Wowhead right now, if you wanted to. But you're not going to. Because you think everything should be free (for you) and everyone else on the Internet should serve your needs. That's not how anything works.
There are alternatives. Stop using wowhead if you don't like the site.
Last edited by mmoc0e47cbaaf5; 2017-06-19 at 04:59 AM.
Sure. Or uMatrix if you want to have full control. Or you can buy their sub.
Whatever works for you.
The main thing being - you, the consumer have the power in this case.
Of course choosing to stay in the ad-riddled Internet complaining how much it sucks is your choice as well. But it's not a particularly good one.
Last edited by mmoc0e47cbaaf5; 2017-06-19 at 09:10 AM.
found the white knight....
Still hes right.
You know what you wrote there is BULLSHIT. The strength and usefullness of wowhead lies in the USER COMMENTS.
Delete them and wowhead would be dead tomorrow (thats why noone uses Wowdb).
When you go to wowhead its because of the user comments plain and simple.
Wowhead is a great site that I use a lot. I wouldn't use it without Ublock though.
Same as this site really