It occurs to me that there’s probably a weird divide of people who find WikiWand strictly better than wikipedia (because of generally nicer typography, less clutter, etc), who have adblock and so don’t notice the part where it’s full of obnoxious ads… and those who are like “why the hell would you want this?”
(if you’re the sort of person who uses wikiwand and haven’t used it without adblock recently, I recommend loading it up in incognito to take stock of what you’re inflicting on people :P)
Huh, interesting. I think this must be relatively recent. But yeah, in general I vastly prefer Wikiwand over normal Wikipedia (though since Wikipedia has added hover-previews that distance has gone down a bit).
It occurs to me that there’s probably a weird divide of people who find WikiWand strictly better than wikipedia (because of generally nicer typography, less clutter, etc), who have adblock and so don’t notice the part where it’s full of obnoxious ads… and those who are like “why the hell would you want this?”
I have uMatrix at home, the pages appear empty.
Previously I accessed the page from work, where no blocker is installed, then it was full of ads.
So it seems that for the optimal experience you not only need some kind of blocker, but it also has to be the right one.
(if you’re the sort of person who uses wikiwand and haven’t used it without adblock recently, I recommend loading it up in incognito to take stock of what you’re inflicting on people :P)
Huh, interesting. I think this must be relatively recent. But yeah, in general I vastly prefer Wikiwand over normal Wikipedia (though since Wikipedia has added hover-previews that distance has gone down a bit).