I’ve had an account for many years and I loved it, but the AI slop is EVERYWHERE. I honestly would not recommend and am considering deleting my account soon if this keeps going the way it is. The ads are also pretty awful, but that’s even secondary to the AI nonsense. PEOPLE don’t want artificial intelligence, companies do! It would do well for Pinterest to read the room and remove their AI. It would even be a good marketing tactic, because I know a LOT of creatives and regular people are specifically looking for AI-free tech.

For the last several years, there has been no browser extension for macOS Safari. Instead, I had to resort to a Javascript bookmarklet, which worked most of the time but not always. Finally, the folks at Pinterest have released a Safari extension that adds a button to easily pin the web page you're looking at. It seems to work well. One note: it seems that, as pointed out in the App Store description, you do have to grant the extension "Always Allow on Every Website" rights for it to successfully connect to your Pinterest account. When I tried using the setting to allow only selected websites and ask for others, the connection failed when it attempted to redirect back to the page from which I started. However, once the account connection is established, you can change the extension setting back to "For other websites: Ask" and it seems to work.

So the pinterest accessed by Safari was not working, so I decided to download the app, thinking it would help me. But boy, was I wrong.When I first downloaded it and opened it, it told me that "Save to Pinterest's extention is currently on. You can turn it off in Safari extensions preferences." It gave me a button to go there, so I did. It took me to some random page where I could turn off the extention. When I did that and opened up Pinterest again, it told me the exact same thing, but off instead of on. So I clicked the button again, and it brought me to Safari. And it's just been repeating this cycle over and over again. It just doesn't work in general. 1/5 would not reccomend.

Typing this from my MacBook Pro 14 inch m4 laptop. I dont know what happened. I LOVED the little icon that let me easily save things to my Pinterest boards. All of a sudden when trying to authorize it takes me to a blank error page on Pinterest. This only happens with the Save to Pinterest extension or application on my Safari browser on my laptop. I can still easily log into my Pinterest account on the website. I Googled it and tried clearing the cache, no change. Also tried following instructions about allowing safari access but it was already allowed. Whatever the instructions said to do had already been done. I will add more stars when this is fixed.