Always manually downloaded and installed addons. Don’t use 3rd party installers
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Oh yes they were. At one point in time, the ads were insanely bad, malware alerts were going off and it was worse than the Wowhead debacle.
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Yeah, as someone who has been using the curseforge site for years before they had an updater for WoW and Minecraft I remember just how bad it was at times. Hell even after they dumped their own updater and joined Twitch, they still ran ads on their web site.
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I only use a few addons…but the one that REALLY annoys me in more recent updates is dejacharacterstats.
I dont need that political feces in an addon. Im using an older version before they inserted their agenda into it
Pretty sure they took all of that out. I started a new DH the other day and none of that stuff was listed when I went through to check off the boxes I wanted.
what is op even talking about.
the app works beautifully and ive had zero issues of any kind
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These are contradictory statements. It doesn’t matter if the software is malevolent or not, if it installs without your reasonable and informed consent, it’s still considered malware. While it’s not technically illegal since they call it, “bundled,” content.
This is called opt-out, where unless you specifically tell them you don’t want the bundled software, it will download. There has been legislation in the US introduced to stop the sketchy opt-out practices of software companies, like Adobe who installs Mcafee with opt-out instead of the more user-friendly and reasonable opt-in approach.
TLDR:
- Opt-out = Implicit consent. Unreasonable and equates to “tricking” the user or making it seem they have no choice but to install extra software.
- Opt-in = Explicit consent. Reasonable and assumes the user won’t see fine print, so they give options of what, if any, extra software they want to install.
Edit: Apparently, the FTC agrees that opt-out is bad for the consumer, and aren’t going to allow it anymore.
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there are many addons that give an unfair advantage (yes just because everyone can get them does not mean they are not a unfair advantage your just defending a problem you helped make)
Don’t play with add-ons then no one’s making you use them
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After tomorrow you won’t be able to use wowup…I had to get bloody nasty curseforge now cause my wowup had warnings when I opened it up the other day and couldn’t update my addons.
I’m not a fan of Overwolf/Curseforge myself. Once a shady company…always a shady company. Overwolf merging with curseforge was it for me…Toodles!
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That all may be so, however, I’ve not been able to access any addons that I have to go to CurseForge to get. I am thrown into a Captcha page that never lets me past even though I correctly selected the images they ask for.
Seems they are so restrictive, they won’t even let you go directly there unless you have Overwolf installed, which I refuse to do.
Wowup isn’t going anywhere and can still be used for everything other than Curse. It supports Wago, Github, and TukUI/ElvUI. Curse doesn’t carry ElvUI, but Wowup does. There’s quite a few popular addons that will update through Wago with the Wowup client.
Wago is building an addon repository and has payouts for addon creators as an alternative to Curse to spur some competition.
I disabled Curse in Wowup months ago and it still works fine for everything that’s available outside of Curse. I was able to find other providers for the vast majority of the addons I used. The few remaining addons that I couldn’t find elsewhere I now update manually.
This. People claim the sky is falling.
Malware is literally short for Malicious Software.
So no, installing Warcraftlogs and other wow related things is not Malware.
It’s unwanted and unwelcome but it’s not Malware. People were accusing Overwolf of putting actual Malware onto their computers and that was proven false.
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Well tell that too my wowup I couldn’t update any of my addons last week and had to install curse to get updates…
Some addons are available from other providers, although they defaulted to installing from Curse (which is why you’re having trouble right now). You will need to change your addons to update from other providers.
Wowup has a guide on migrating addons from Curse to other providers:
The Wowup discord server has been very helpful when I migrated as many addons as possibble from Curse.
It helps to enable wago.io as an addon provider as well (if you’re ok with a small ad that’s sandboxed to be as unintrusive as possible) since it has quite a few of the popular addons from Curse.
Here is another guide that helps with installing addons from other sources, including GitHub:
blizzard should ban all addons just to see people freak out XD
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What? Because how dare they want be rewarded for the time spent on addons? This idea that it should be done out of passion is just beyond stupid.
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I would love it, the outrage would be hilarious. DF is the perfect time to do this with the UI update just break all the addons.