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Popular literary analysis wiki TV Tropes has become a pay site. Please consider using All The Tropes instead.

In this comment, c0lo wrote:

you'll have to admit that forced work camps still fit your wording.

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I'm not using an ad blocker. I'm using the tracking protection feature built into Firefox. This feature is enabled by default in Private Browsing windows, and there is an about:config setting to enable it throughout Firefox. When I followed the "Allow ads on TV Tropes" link, I got instructions for how to disable Adblock Plus. As I have never used Adblock Plus, I followed the "Don't see the red octagon" link and chose "Firefox Private Browsing" from the menu. This gave the following instructions:

If you are using Firefox Private Browsing with Tracking Protection, a shield icon is displayed to the left of the Firefox address bar. Tracking Protection blocks ads from being displayed.

  1. Click the shield icon to the left of the address bar.
  2. Select "Disable protection for this session".
  3. Click "Done" below to close this window and refresh the page.

This is oversimplified. Tracking Protection doesn't block ads from being displayed if they're hosted on the same domain as the website. It blocks only third-party ads based on tracking each viewer's behavior across websites to infer his or her interests in order to stalk the viewer with creepy "retargeting" ads. And these third-party ads have been associated with malware transmission far more often than self-hosted ads. I'm not disabling antivirus just because a website can't fall back to self-hosted ads.

Fortunately, a backup of TV Tropes was taken in early July 2012, prior to TV Tropes' switch from the free CC BY-SA license to a non-free license in likely violation of its contributors' copyrights and its short-lived experiment with assignment of copyright in contributions. This backup was used to seed a fork, called All The Tropes, which is hosted on Miraheze. Instead of carrying advertising, projects on Miraheze are supported the same way as Wikimedia projects, namely through voluntary donations from readers.

The corresponding article on All The Tropes is Literal Genie.

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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by FakeBeldin on Tuesday October 10 2017, @07:13PM

    by FakeBeldin (3360) on Tuesday October 10 2017, @07:13PM (#579984) Journal

    I was an occasional visitor to TV tropes for a while, until they messed up something with the layout on mobile devices. Couldn't be bothered for a long enough stint that I lost track of the site and never looked back.

    I did try all the tropes, but I didn't like it's user interface on mobiles at all. Maybe it's better now. Then again, maybe I have less time to waste on those sites than I used to ;-)

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