Thanks God

I loved Wikiwand for years but the AI stuff is just too much. I don't want AI to dumb down a Wikipedia article for me, I can read just fine thanks! The rest of your features are not worth the headache of popups begging me to use AI so I'll pay for more functionality. Uninstalling!

Please let me opt-out the ai slop, i do not want to log in for ai features and i'd to like say that **once**, not every time i visit wikipedia

Were the new AI features worth losing thousands of users? Your job is to pretty up wikipedia, not nagging me every time to login and use AI features. Bye bye.

Used to be a great way of reading Wikipedia with much nicer visuals. I've used it for *years*. Now it has useless AI barf all over it and a bunch of things behind a paywall. Sorry, but I'm out. Modern for Wikipedia is a much nicer alternative.

Used to be lightweight and unobtrusive. Bloated with unnecessary AI features now.

It used to be a really great extension that made Wikipedia much nicer. And then a "genius" came up with the idea of integrating AI - and monetization at every turn. A great reading experience becomes a supermarket advertisement. Horrible. Everything ruined after so many years.

It was good. Now it's obnoxious.

What a great addon it was! One of my essentials. 5/5 for like, years. You can **** off with this AI *** though. Not even gonna install it ever again, seeing if something has changed. You're done. 1/5, never recommending it to my friends, never trying it again. You've had one "job".... Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

Also, Wiki has a dark mode now. This is all some of us needed. Thanks for ******* it up.

In all previous versions, Wikiwand was a really nice UI overhaul for Wikipedia. I essentially used it as a dark mode theme, with nicer typesetting. I enjoyed having a modern looking, easy to read, and distraction-free Wiki experience. That was my entire use case.

The recent update was a large overhaul to Wikiwand. So much so, that it doesn't feel right to even compare this version to the last. The newest update brought a whole lot of nonsense from "AI powered" popups, larger than half-the-screen coverup login prompts (an account for *what* purpose?), and visual distractions like the new AI chat and Q/A sections.

Ultimately, this new version departs completely from my use case and my taste, and its functionality is replaced by Dark Reader and Wikipedia's own modern theme.

Thanks for the happy years, Wikiwand. For your final trick, you can vanish from my extensions list.

Great idea. But please let us control the position and size of the newly added photo viewer. Customisation is part of Wikiwand "credo", so why not do that?

I used to love the UI improvements that Wikiwand made to wikipedia, but now they have filled their website with an AI chatbot, ads, popups, content locked behind an account, and other useless features. I will no longer be using wikiwand.

New layout sucks big time!
This USED to be a good extension.

It used to be good some time ago. Last update made Wikipedia's Main page to appear broken introducing an AI chatbot and most customization features available before (including black theme) are now locked behind a monthly subscription paywall which promotes other AI features.

This extension used to be good, not anymore. Aint paying a single penny. AI horsesht garbage

This takes the collaborative spirit of Wikipedia and warps it into a mess filled with ads and shady connections. (At least) one of the developers has intellectually, materially and technologically benefited a discriminatory settler-colonial regime, which adds a disturbing layer to the whole project. This is the perfect example of 'entrepreneurs' taking someone else's hard work and making money off of it, all the while violating the spirit of the creation. Thanks but no, thanks. I'll stick to the boring old 'outdated' version of the site that the community has been diligently working on for ages instead of this AI filled garbage :)

Edit: forgot to add - check out how many servers worldwide this thing is shaking hands with in the background while you're reading your article on Nabataea or the Achaemenids. You might be terribly surprised.

Edit 2: From the horse's own mouth



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Used this forever. But now the AI crap is annoying. Wikipedia has a nice looking site now. I don't need this bloat anymore. Also, don't pay for this mess. Give your money to Wikipedia directly.

Black theme locked behind paywall... unistalled