Its a dog eat dog out there in money making land.
Oooo that would be delicious though 
If addons could be hosted on Blizzard.com and downloaded through the Launcher 
But yeah I donât see that happening either.
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Is Google also taking data from curseforge without permission when I use Chrome to navigate to their website ? 
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hard? No, not haaaard
Might take a while for some people though :3
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Why would they want to? The cost for the hosting and then having an approval process to ensure all uploads are not some third party hack would be something they would then be on the hook for. Not counting staff to manage and monitor it.
That is a lot of addons.
I donât know I get by with the handful I use.
Iâm fine with advertisements when I check my addons to update them. But the Overwolf Client is not like that, they are running video ads whenever your on a loading screen.
I feel bad for people that already take a long time loading into Dalaran and other large cityâs that will also have videoâs running that you canât close.
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Far out how disabled is that person, that they require that many addons.
Say what? The client is an overlay?
Canât you just close their addon app once you are done with it? I mean they canât actually hook into WoW to show you ads.
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The more you do in game the more useful more addons becomes. If you play say a couple classes and you only do current raids, M+, and level your professions you probably wonât need many addons.
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Ok that sounds suspicious, just close the addon manager and they cant do that. If addons require the manager to be running to execute then theyve entered 3rd party automation territory and are breaking the TOS.
It matters what you do with it, google is not rehosting it.
Except google will link you to the current curse site to DL the mod. What it doesnât do is give you a direct URL to download the mod yourself. There is a difference, when you visit the site their ads play and they make their money. If you directly link to the dl, they make nothing and are still on the hook for all the expenses of running it.
Neither is Wowup.io. Itâs literally Chrome for Wow add-ons instead of websites.
I can input direct URLs into Chrome and download mods just fine.
If their goal is to make money, they shouldnât be in the âWow add-onâ business as that is against the ToS to get monetary compensation for add-on distribution.
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And were do you think you are going to get those URLs? Oh wait, their site. Plus Google isnât going to run a check to see if the addon has been updated for you and neither will your bookmarks to the DL page.
What they want to stop is other addon managers from using a service they are paying for and managing. Look I have never used these guys before and I wish Twitch was keeping it but I donât blame them for not wanting competing sites from using them as a repo for their use. They should buy their own and get the mod authors to upload to them as well. Problem solved.
Yep, it playâs videoâs on the overlay (that pops up on loading screen and canât be closed.)
I canât find info if it can be closed/removed after downloading WoW addons (idk if you even can yet?) so idk how it works other than the advertisements on loading screens.
I do know with other games there are more things they do such as recording stats, recordings and stuff in LoL and other games.
People have reported that the ads sometimes (used to anyway idk how it is now.) open themselves. I know from experience in the past their ads (just like WoWhead before they fixed it) where full of malware, seen people complaining about it less than a year ago so it might still be true but Iâm not really willing to test that myself.
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There is no way they can stop you from closing itâŚ
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From pastebin where someone will catalog them to spite Overwolf.
The point is, a website is public and you canât blame people for making âclientsâ that access them. Thatâs all Wowup.io is. Itâs pretty much Chrome, but specifically made to access only a few websites and download a few files from them.
Tim Berners Lee didnât design HTTP to force people to watch ads. He made a whole URI scheme so that people can bypass about every front end to get to the ressource they want.
Imagine defending scum bags that break the Blizzard ToS, and also want to take add-ons hostage to force their malware unto our computers. Why do you people do this ?
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And that will be for the courts to decide, if someone decides to fight the order to stop. Remember we are not just talking about a collection of urls, they are calling an API that lets them know if something was updated or not. An API that is not part of the public side of the site.