Enshittification everywhere. Was a very nice plugin to cleanly read wikipedia, now cluttered with AI and ads

They had the nerve to actually BLOCK people from accessing entire wikipedia pages. You are required to watch an ad before you can access the page. This is allegedly to have access to their "wikicontent," which is not needed or desired. This app used to be good. But pulling this crap was a step too far. You CANNOT BLOCK ACCESS TO WIKIPEDIA TO MAKE MONEY FROM ADS.

All it does now is infest your Wikipedia with ads. Don't bother installing and I highly recommend uninstalling it if you already did so. Even when uninstalled, it keeps coming back and keeps stealing all Wikipedia links.

Ad-required, AI-driven slop. Went from premiere readability to money-driven corporation. Do not install.

As many other reviews say. initially a good idea, now, full of AI slop i don't want.

Used to be a great extension/addon. Ruined by AI slop that apparently needs to appear everywhere now. Plus constant popups everywhere if cookies are cleared. Sad to see such a beautiful piece of work fall so low.

I can't wait until the AI screws up all the detailed trivia bits or simple math for a article summary.

Also if Wikiepedia is too hard to read for you, you should probably finish middle school.

This world is gonna get so dumb so fast I can't wait.

They ruined the BEST wikipedia addon with AI. It's bloat now. If I wanted that, I'd just ask AI for info instead of using wikipedia. Please do a lite version without it or something.

Used to be a solid add-on, but now pesters the user to login for "AI tools" every time a Wikipedia link is visited, causing unnecessary bloat and wasting the user's time. Why they absolutely ruined a good add-on is beyond me.

If I want AI, I'll either build my own local solution with whatever LLM I want for free or go to a website or use a separate app. Wikiwands' entire existence for being is to make the Wikipedia layout easier to read. Nothing else. Don't remake it ever. AI Wand, NOT Wikiwand. Utter JUNK made by JUNK developers, supported by JUNK people.

This used to be a good extension, which I used for many years across different browsers and devices. Today I've had enough and I'm going to uninstall it.

Before they started remaking it, it was very good. It was essentially a better layout for Wikipedia with not much else to it, but that's why I liked it. It made it clearer to read, easier to use, and just overall felt like a more updated version of Wikipedia's UI. Combined with an ad blocker, it was perfect. However, since the remake, it is worthless. It is so bloated. The majority of the page is taken up with AI stuff, and it wants you to use it constantly. It has made the layout even more confusing - while before I felt like it was very intuitive and more Wikipedia like, now it's just added so much more junk and confusing elements. Wikipedia is way easier to use.

With this latest update, I'm done. I was already getting frustrated with the way pictures were handled. If you clicked on it, there would be various bits of information that covered over part of the picture. Then there was so much blackspace that it wasn't always that much more visible than in the article. You zoom in and it's barely better. Now, I tried to look at the picture it used for the cover image, which no longer shows up in the sidebar as well. I clicked on it, and it was much the same as it used to be, although the information/other pictures below now fades away. Good! However I tried zooming in, because it was still not a big picture. It not only barely zoomed in, but moved the maybe two pixels bigger image around with my cursor. So now I had a very vaguely enlarged picture of some people that bounced around as I tried to exit out of it. Cool!!!!!! Good thing I never use Wikipedia to look at things like art as someone who enjoys art history!!!

The AI is too much, the paywall is too much, the needing to have a separate account for it is too much. And now they have continued to just make the UI worse and worse. I'm done here. I'm so sad that this has gone this way. I'm so disappointed. They had something good and it's useless now. I'd rather use normal Wikipedia, and that's the first time I've said that in many years.

Used to be slim, nice and handy, but feels a bit bloated since the remake. The possible settings for UI adjustments are great, however the popup is very annoying to always come back since I constantly use private windows, and Wikiwand won't save any settings, instead asks again every time.
AI features are really unneccessary for me. Just please make it save my settings and not ask again for a login everytime.

I've been here 3 min and I've already learned something!