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==Consumer impact summary== | ==Consumer impact summary== | ||
===User freedom=== | ===User freedom=== | ||
The following message was posted by one of the [https:// | The following message was posted by one of the [https://megalodon.jp/2026-0402-1017-25/https://x.com:443/Blondiee89/status/1931817740580589681 SOAP moderators] and was sent after a complaint from Fandom's automated system:<blockquote>''"Admin or not, the staff doesn't care about it, neither do the filters. If Fandom staff wants the word censored: you don't have any rights to be against it. Not even us"''</blockquote> | ||
Users on Fandom have little control over the content they upload to the platform. Furthermore, Fandom staff clarify that all content uploaded by users to the platform is their property,<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024 |title=Response from SOAP members in regards to the Fandom Wiki vandalism |url=https://redlib.catsarch.com/r/TheOdysseyHadAPurpose/comments/1e1jahx/response_from_soap_members_in_regards_to_the/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20260321135345/https://redlib.catsarch.com/r/TheOdysseyHadAPurpose/comments/1e1jahx/response_from_soap_members_in_regards_to_the/ |archive-date=21 Mar 2026 |website=Reddit |quote=Admins can't give permission to destroy a wiki, and if they do, they will be demoted and blocked. Futher, The content on this platform belongs to fandom and not the admins}}</ref> and they can modify or alter it without the prior consent of the writers involved. | [[File:Fandom Zionist ads.png|alt=Fandom Wikia Zionist Ad|thumb|Users do not have the right to restrict or decide which advertisements appear on the pages. Fandom would sometimes insert advertisements from <!--https://archive.ph/KB8yo Hiding this as Archive.today has since been blacklisted. Do not delete it; there are no other archive captures. -Sojourna -->political organizations without prior consultation with the editors involved.]] | ||
Users on Fandom have little control over the content they upload to the platform. Furthermore, Fandom staff clarify that all content uploaded by users to the platform is their property,<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024 |title=Response from SOAP members in regards to the Fandom Wiki vandalism |url=https://redlib.catsarch.com/r/TheOdysseyHadAPurpose/comments/1e1jahx/response_from_soap_members_in_regards_to_the/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20260321135345/https://redlib.catsarch.com/r/TheOdysseyHadAPurpose/comments/1e1jahx/response_from_soap_members_in_regards_to_the/ |archive-date=21 Mar 2026 |website=[[Reddit]] |quote=Admins can't give permission to destroy a wiki, and if they do, they will be demoted and blocked. Futher, The content on this platform belongs to fandom and not the admins}}</ref> and they can modify or alter it without the prior consent of the writers involved. | |||
Fandom had previously replaced entire pages with advertisements without consulting the users involved. Among them are paid advertisements from corporations such as McDonald's to remove part of the historical data of their products for promotions. | Fandom had previously replaced entire pages with advertisements without consulting the users involved. Among them are paid advertisements from corporations such as McDonald's to remove part of the historical data of their products for promotions. | ||
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===Anti-competitive practices=== | ===Anti-competitive practices=== | ||
<blockquote>''"People on the fandom wiki are taking a bunch of new pages from https://jojowiki.com that I and other editors spent lots of time creating just to have it on their site. They aren't explicitly plagiarizing (they tried to before) but the content and layouts are really similar. This time it's FANDOM's own employees getting paid to take our pages and replace words with synonyms. I wouldn't mind if they at least credited us (which they are supposed to do as per our copyright policy), but they have a filter that bans anyone who links to our site."'' - [https:// | <blockquote>''"People on the fandom wiki are taking a bunch of new pages from https://jojowiki.com that I and other editors spent lots of time creating just to have it on their site. They aren't explicitly plagiarizing (they tried to before) but the content and layouts are really similar. This time it's FANDOM's own employees getting paid to take our pages and replace words with synonyms. I wouldn't mind if they at least credited us (which they are supposed to do as per our copyright policy), but they have a filter that bans anyone who links to our site."'' - [https://megalodon.jp/2026-0402-1027-34/https://x.com:443/Vishkujo/status/1364327126116282369 @Vishkujo], administrator of the JoJo's Bizarre Encyclopedia (2021) </blockquote>In a blog post published in 2025 by editor Violet, who had previously worked on moving Death Battle Wiki to the non-profit host ''Miraheze'', he explained that one of the reasons for moving the wiki to a different host was due to Fandom's attempts to remove links or mentions to wikis on different platforms, explaining that this has led to a lot of internal discussion regarding external links, where editors are forced to promote dead wikis that are still hosted on Fandom instead of independent options that are actively maintained.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2025 |title=Leaving Fandom |url=https://deathbattle.miraheze.org/wiki/DEATH_BATTLE!_Wiki:Leaving_FANDOM |access-date=2025-08-19 |website=Death Battle Wiki! via Miraheze |quote=Aside from this dodgy language being used to try and justify their anti-competitive practices, this also actively hinders our own editing by preventing us from providing external links to wikis that have migrated out of Fandom and are being actively supported, which means we are not "organically sharing" accurate information for franchises acknowledged by the show like, say, Terraria, Bendy, and Guilty Gear. |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20260124011402/https://deathbattle.miraheze.org/wiki/DEATH_BATTLE!_Wiki:Leaving_FANDOM |archive-date=24 Jan 2026}}</ref> | ||
===Business Model=== | ===Business Model=== | ||