Reviews for Wikiwand - knowledge, with context
Wikiwand - knowledge, with context by Wikiwand
635 reviews
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 14233115, 6 years agoOversimplies and has ads for the extension itself, which doesn't make sense. It actually says,
"Enjoying Wikiwand?
Give good old Wikipedia a great new look:
Get Wikiwand"
with "Get Wikiwand" as a clickable button to this extension page, which conveniently guided me to the review section so as to leave a poor review. Great work, dev, advertise to use the extension within the extension.
The whole extension removes utility from Wiki while replacing it with ads for itself. Especially if you are a wiki contributor, stay away from this toxic extension and don't be dazzled by it's semi-modern and over-simplified UI - Rated 5 out of 5by Olivier, 6 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by dynorphe, 6 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 12804760, 6 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14188875, 6 years agoI use very frequently wikiwand when I translated from french some historical books. It is very useful especially for finding otiginal names of places, citites, etc
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14179656, 6 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Merithyn, 6 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Earendil Elrond Arwen, 7 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by giorgospan, 7 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14022099, 7 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13748474, 7 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14131309, 7 years agoGot addicted. cannot use old wikipedia UI anymore
- Rated 5 out of 5by coldkeys, 7 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 13741010, 7 years agoWikiwand was the greatest Wikipedia add-on ever. Now they totally screwed it up with the most intrusive, useless ads I've seen in a long time. If only they were even remotely related to the content at hand, but no, they're totally random and add no value at all. Also, they're seemingly immune to ad blockers, because as soon as you pick up the elements to block, the whole page UI gets messed up. Disgusting.
Guys, you need revenue? There are better ways, I'm sure.Developer response
posted 6 years agoHi, thanks for the review. We appreciate your comment and so in the recent releases we added the ability to check if the user has an extension or not and so now if you have Firefox extension installed you will see no more ads. Regards - Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 13415230, 7 years agoRecently wikiland started showing intrusive ads. I wouldn't have minded an unintrusive ad but this is too much
Developer response
posted 6 years agoHi, thanks for the review. We appreciate your comment and so in the recent releases we added the ability to check if the user has an extension or not and so now if you have Firefox extension installed you will see no more ads. Regards - Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 14095747, 7 years agoI used to like you, Wikiwand. You could have been great. You could have been better than Wikipedia.
But no.
Now you show ads embedded straight in the source code so you bypass adblockers. As an added bonus, they break the page now. Hooray, killing two birds with one stone! Don't even bother blocking them with element hider because they're a hydra; cut off one head it grows another.
Did you piss off your investors? Revenue running on fumes? I'm sorry but you guys have lost my respect for selling out and aggressively pushing ads onto the end user. It's funny because Wikipedia stood against ads and you people decide to go against that, full steam ahead. I doubt that 30% goes to Wikipedia.
Straight to the trash it goes, like it belonged in the first place. It was too good to be true.
If the intrusivity was an honest mistake then I will eat my words. Until then, this review stays.Developer response
posted 6 years agoHi, thanks for the review. We appreciate your comment and so in the recent releases we added the ability to check if the user has an extension or not and so now if you have Firefox extension installed you will see no more ads. Regards - Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 14095588, 7 years agoAds?? Are you joking? Uninstalled. A pity, because the extension was pretty, but ads are an absolute no-go.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 14095528, 7 years agoUninstalled the moment they put ads on Wikipedia. Sleazy and only 30% of their revenue goes to wikipedia. Completely shameless and I will never use your product again.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 14095465, 7 years agoThis addon was pretty cool, but trying to make money off of Wikipedia articles with ads is sleazy. Uninstalled.