Oh are they? That’s pretty scummy of them.
Overwolf is greatly overestimating their value.
Outside of authors who might be getting cash for staying exclusive to curseforge, there are other services that exist that happily host addons that most addon devs are probably using anyhow.
For example:
All it would take is to somehow let people add their github addon repositories to wowup.
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Ah…
See? That’s how little I pay attention or even notice it. I had no idea. 
That honestly brings a tear to my eye. I’ve got relatives over there that no one can get a hold of. Watching my heritage systematically be wiped out has been weighing heavily on me. So it’s good to see gaming companies try to bring awareness.
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There is like no ad there and as someone from the 2000s who experienced the internet as well, popup blockers for those pop up ads… outside those, ads weren’t as intrusive. Now they got ones that cover the screen and require you to hit a small “x” and that is where we use adblockers. Nothing wrong with curseforge in terms of damage being done to your pc.
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Zero tolerance for advertisements on the internet doesn’t mean “some tolerance.” It means ZERO tolerance.
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Yea, they are getting blocked by Curse so Curse can make money on their addons. And yet people are in here actually defending Curse… LOL. Someone even dim enough to say, “well they only installed a few things w/ out my permission that I didn’t like”… that they KNOW of. Overwolf and Curse are a cancer. Curse used to be a glorious bastion of free and open addons devs could share w/ the community. Now they are trying to monetize it and the user experience has downgraded for it. Blizz should step in.
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OK so because someone said WowUp doesn’t work anymore I decided to install the Overwolf Curseforge app. So it installed something called Overwolf which I assume is the app manager but it also installed something called Icy Heroes. What is Icy Heroes and do I need it?
Also it created a little widget thing on the left of my screen how do I get rid of the widget?
God forbid the company that’s hosting all of these addons and paying authors actually make money to keep the company going and the hosting. 
I swear, people think this is some hippy dippy reality they live in where everyone is completely altruistic and no one needs money for anything. 
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Unless you’ve found the secret to blocking ads and coded an addon or created your own browser that shuts them off… your zero tolerance policy means nothing… because if we’re being honest, the internet doesn’t care about YOUR policies.
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Addons were never meant to be a job or way to make money. If people want to get paid for development they should get a job.
Yea it’s called a HOSTS file and using a pi hole lmao
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It’s the Icy Veins app for Heeoes of the Storm. So no, you don’t need it.
No idea what that is. I don’t have that. Check your settings. Also make sure you only use Cirseforge while downloading addons and then exit completely. So check your settings again and make sure it closes out of Overwolf entirely when you exit.
No one said it was a job or a steady income.
But there’s a crap ton of work that goes into them. And there’s nothing wrong with those authors getting a free meal at McDonalds once or twice a month out of it. It’s incentive to keep making the things you use.
I’ll say it again:
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Or you can just install the add-on manually copy and paste the folder, even with the update without ever needing to install curse forge?
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I deleted the Icy Veins app and realized I downloaded the Overwolf app not the CurseForge app. That’s what created the widget/overlay thing. I got rid of both and downloaded the CurseForge and set it up to not launch on startup and to exit on close and it’s working fine now. I don’t mind the ads, just don’t want malware or things I don’t want installed being installed. But I trust you guys that this doesn’t have that 
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Nothing lasts forever bud… there will be work arounds. Still doesn’t change my response.
Nope, no malware. I’ve been using it for a couple months now. I just open it, update all, exit and done. 
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No one has a problem with the authors using donation sites to help fund their addon development. People just don’t want to see advertising (most of the profit is gonna go to curse and not the authors anyway).
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I will take this route way before I ever download that garbage client from that trashcan of a company.
Overwolf lost any form of respect from me ever since the shenanigans they pulled with TS3.
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If it’s too much work they shouldn’t do it. If this addon they dev is NEEDED then blizz should replace it anyway with a built in system. You’re just proving the point. Donations are fine if people want to do that and support their fav addon, but forced installs, spyware and all this extra crap + a monopoly on ad based revenue sites should be blocked. There’s no denying that overwolf’s only goal is to monetize addons. You’re trying to argue a couple free meals at mcdonalds which is a trash analogy because you’re forgetting that those free meals (which sounds insignificant really…) are only bought at paid for because now I have to have a McDonalds billboard in my front yard + a McDonalds tattoo on my forehead to help that dev get their 2 free meals a month, all of which they don’t really need and doesn’t support them much.
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