Reviews for Wikiwand - knowledge, with context
Wikiwand - knowledge, with context by Wikiwand
135 reviews
- Rated 1 out of 5by Aphotic, 6 months agonow its filled with ads, 1 star.
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Modern for Wikipedia
by Modern Redesigns - Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 18749240, 6 months agoWikiwand used to be great. It was a bit annoying when the AI features were shoved in my face, but it was at least tolerable. However, ads have been added recently, and even if I use an ad blocker there are still placeholders breaking the page layout.
RIP Wikiwand. - Rated 1 out of 5by Mikaïl, 6 months agoThe AI features are useless, used it once and didn't even answer my question, might as well use ChatGPT for AI
- Rated 1 out of 5by Richard Yan, 6 months agoUsed to be great with beautiful styles. When the AI stuff rolled out, I felt like it was bad taste but stuck with it. Then came the ads, on top of hard work by volunteers editing wikipedia. I guess we do live in a capitalist society with insatiable corporate greed, but the least I could do is to stop using this expired plugin. Oh and also, no, some lines of CSS is not worth $5 a month.
- Rated 1 out of 5by linuxenjoyer, 6 months agoIt was good for a while but they added AI stuff nobody asked for and you now have to be logged into their system for data collection if you don't want to get served ads.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Nick, 6 months agoI'll stick with Wiki's default look if it means no ads, no random AI stuff, etc. Have been a user for some time, but I guess all good things must come to an end.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 18744013, 6 months agoI've used this extension for quite some time and it used to work flawlessly. As of recent updates Wikiwand started to inject advertisements into Wikipedia pages even though Wikipedia, by principles, is free from ads. It's absolutely unacceptable.
- Rated 1 out of 5by AP6YC, 6 months agoWikiwand is absolute trash now. Nonsense AI tools are pushed nonstop, and ads are inserted in so many places in the page. What a waste of what was once a great tool. Go somewhere else to format Wiki pages.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 18743018, 6 months agoStarted as a fantastic skin/custom CSS for wikipedia. Now turned into some sort of weird corporate product pushing AI summaries and an ungodly amount of ads! Ads on wikipedia??? Have you gone insane?
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 18725086, 6 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Joey, 7 months agoDoes not enhance the user experience of Wikipedia at all. Instead, it changes the look slightly and then bombards you with pop-ups trying to get you to buy their AI service whenever you try to read an article.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Parakeet709, 7 months agoSwitched to another extension after all these AI features rolled out. Just wanted to change the look of articles, but now I can't even do that because its bundled with the paid AI features. If you're looking for a modern and sleek way to make Wikipedia look nice, either get Dark Reader, which lets you keep the default design but make it dark mode, or Modern for Wikipedia, which makes it look nicer, lets you change between shades from white to black and a light brown, and lastly lets you adjust stuff with the text.
I was not sponsored to say this, by the way, this is just my own opinion. I love the style of Wikiwand, but the AI features being forced on causing other design features to be behind a paywall caused me to list alternatives for people reading this. - Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 18666384, 7 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Gigatron, 8 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 18655778, 8 months agoUsed to be good, now just full of premium pop-ups, AI, and selling user data.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 13885454, 8 months agoBring back the Pre-AI version... New version is garbage... Have opted for a different extension
- Rated 1 out of 5by Pierson Moore, 8 months agoThis extension has become unusable. I don't want to sign in to save my formatting settings, it takes 4 clicks to get rid of the stupid popup and then you also have to clear the AI popup. I really don't care if Wikiwand has AI in it or not but stop shoving it down our throats. set it off to the corner of the page and don't open the AI chat/summary until the user requests it.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Mtro, 8 months agoUsed to be a very nice wikipedia skin. But like so many things, it's been turned into a business that adds all kind of things I don't want--especially AI. I'll just go back to regular wikipedia.