It's announced that the whole extension is going to be locked behind the Premium subscription. While I understand the need to make money, the costs are not reasonable for me and my usage. I also don't like your explanation that this is because of the rising costs of the AI-features, which I didn't need nor was convinced of to begin with.

You can circumvent this (for now?) if you set up your own server, but I think I prefer to part ways at this point.

Really used to love this until it started using gen AI more and more and kept finding more errors in its checks.

Just like grammarly pushing the premium very hard. I'm not going to pay for this.

One free grammar check, and then if I want to keep going I need to get a subscription... what's even the point of this "free" add-on?

Extension is now premium-only. A shame, because I was a consistent user before then, even getting premium once or twice when I could afford it. Unfortunately, I have other things I need to pay for, and a spellchecker is very much not a priority. I will be getting back to my browser's default spellchecker.

thye now wa t to be just premium nothing is for free i guess

It does not know the difference between there and their.

This stupid thing wants to change words for no apparent reason.

Does not recognize many common words - especially names, scientific terms, and loan words from other languages. This would be fine if it happened occassionally, but it happens *constantly* and with plenty of words that aren't names or loan words.

Additionaly, almost every time it's given me a grammar recommendation, it's been wrong. There is no way to tell it that a suggestion is incorrect - the only option is to disable the rule entirely.

I thought I had gotten this spellchecker specifically because it wasn't AI (that's why I stopped using Grammarly). Another review mentioned that the AI label only appears in the extension name after you install it, so I'd guess that's what happened and it took me a while to notice.

Overall, poor quality and deceptive.

last few months its been terrible. addon not working at all. not show on any website. cant turn on or off. i need to reinstal it everyday to work for an hour. will be deleting. to bad as i had it for years

AI and too intrusive

I'm very concerned about privacy with this extension. As an example of what they collect (from their privacy policy).
Usage information (such as the date and time of visits, pages viewed, links to/from any page, and time spent in a session)
Device information (such as your internet protocol (IP) address, Internet service provider, operating system, computer model, language settings and CPU details, referrer URL, time zone information, data volume transferred, access status/ HTTP status code, and web browser type).
Inference Information about your usage of LanguageTool (such as whether you are a frequent document uploader or user of a particular feature). Location information (approximated, based on your IP address).

Almost none of this has anything to do with helping to check spelling and grammar and it goes way beyond what anyone should be willing to share to any company, let alone an extension.

it does not work with Thunderbird 128.6.0

My God, this tool used to be the prime tool for spell-checking. In recent weeks, they somehow F-ed up the alorithm, and now the spell-checking is close to a retarded - constantly suggesting wrong intepretation, highlighting simple words that does not make any sense. Please update it back.