Grammarly is far too intrusive

So I downloaded Grammarly today, and within one hour I had decided that it was worth going premium. I wish I could say I haven't regretted it.

I feel like I have an English professor watching over my shoulder, picking up on every single bad habit I make. It spots the over-use of the same word, incorrect use of colons, politically incorrect terms, "basic" words such as "very little", there are a thousand reasons why anyone serious about blogging should consider going premium.

There are a few mistakes that Grammarly makes, such as perpetually suggesting to change "its" to "it's", and then back again, and also suggesting the removal of a word which makes the sentence nonsensical, and then suggesting the word be re-inserted; however, these instances are quite rare.

As a spelling and grammar checker, I could not recommend Grammarly enough.

HOWEVER

It is far too intrusive for my liking, and I am specifically talking about the use of Grammarly within WordPress.

I am really annoyed, and I will be putting a ticket in to try to resolve the issues that I am having; otherwise I may be asking for a refund (which I have seven days to do).

1. The first thing that I noticed is that as soon as I opened up the Grammarly editor, ALL Amazon affiliate banner and product links would be removed. So before editing an article containing Amazon links (and so far I have noticed it only with Amazon), I have to copy and paste the script into Word, to then reinsert it after I have finished editing. Very frustrating and time-consuming
2. The second thing that has annoyed me is the fact that every time I open up the Grammarly editor, it will automatically deselect the "open in new tab" box for all of my pictures and links. It is a complete pain in the backside to have to re-select the box for ALL links and pics, EVERY time I open the Grammarly editor (which can be opened quite easily by mistake).

I am not happy.

It is a fantastic piece of software, and I would be shouting about it left right and center, had it not been for these flaws. Unless there is a way to fix the issues (and I have messed around with the limited available settings), I may be testing out Jetpack or Ginger instead :(

I shall keep you guys posted if I find a fix to the problems.

-edit- 1st Sept
Oh, one other thing I forgot to add, I downloaded the Grammarly Windows app, which was not working at all. It would crash within second of launching the installation .exe. I put a ticket in, and got a response within an hour, which was good, however they're unsure of what the problem is and will get back to me. The Microsoft Office app installed without a hitch.

*Update* 2nd Sept
This has now been resolved

-edit- 2nd Sept
I've just tried installing Firefox to see if it's a browser problem. Both problems as mentioned above are present in Firefox, so the browser is not the issue.

-edit- 2nd Sept
I have found an EXCELLENT work around for the "open in new tab" problem:

https://my.wealthyaffiliate.com/the-fran/blog/tiny...

This makes it so that ALL external links open in new tab by default. The biggest problem with that is the fact that I use pretty links, and these are recognised as internal links, so to make the code work I would need to lose my pretty links.

Dilemma after dilemma.

The other option is to install the "MDC Target Blank" plugin, but obviously more plugins = slower website. I have tried the plugin though, and it does work! Between using the code in Fran's blog, and using the MDC plugin, I'm quite happy that I won't have the annoying "new tab" problem any more :)

Thoughts?

-edit- 3nd Sept

I've written a 2000+ word review of Grammarly on my website:

http://tomakemoneyathome.com/grammarly-review-is-i...

-edit- 6th Sept

Yesterday I have received a follow up email, assuring me that Grammarly are still looking into the problems I have been experiencing, and today I received an email asking for a before-and-after example of the HTML of my Amazon links, for them to assess.

One thing (among many) that cannot be faulted about Grammarly - their customer support is excellent!