I see almost no ads, but then I run every major adblocker plus AdGuard home on a Raspberry PI. The paid version of AdGuard home claims it can block Twitch ads as well.
I know with AdGuard home I’m blocking about 30-40% of all DNS queries, pretty much all ad and data collection sites. You can also add domains to the block lists.
P.S. I also have VPNExpress, mostly for my laptop and phone when I’m not on my home network.
See, i have no problems with like, mute banner ads.
When they:
Move
Make noise
Don’t turn off
I get irritated.
I dont want their crap overlay program. I want the mod manager. Unfortunately, you need both or they can’t give you your ads because they’re too stupid to figure out how to put them in without it.
That’s my biggest problem. I need two programs to do one thing. It’s offensive. Nope.
What I’d like to see is wowup being able to pull updates but not search for or DL new mods. That’s be a compromise I’d make.
FB Purity hides all the FB garbage. No mobile version though 
Oh I know I’ve been using FB Purity for a long time and I agree I wish there was a mobile version. The ads I currently unable to block with uBlock Origin of FB Purity are ads within Facebook videos and this is something that’s only happened in the past few weeks.
SCREW Overwolf. I will run no addons rather than run this garbage, or download manually from wowinterface like the old days.
WoWup is pretty good
It’s still a company making profit. If the ads were not intrusive and were done to keep the site running, that would be different. Like for example, a game that will not be named that was shut down years ago now has private servers set up and they have detailed the costs to keep the servers running. They take donations each month, then cut off donations when they have their goal. If they do go over, then that’s surplus that goes to the next month. But, they are not profiting off the game that does not belong to them. That is the problem with this. If it was just the costs to run Curseforge itself, okay. But it’s not… it’s a very shady company trying to profit from something that by the Blizzard Terms of Service they shouldn’t be able to.
I was going to look up the EULA and call you on this as I thought Add-On managers can’t charge you directly but they can indirectly throw all the advertising they want plus charge a premium for faster service. However, I found something that actually seems to support your statement. Then again, maybe the laywers would not consider Overwolf to be using the Blizz APIs (just the add-ons in their repository, which don’t count as part of Overwolf’s client application).
B. Applications May Not Charge Premiums To Use The APIs . “Premium” versions of Applications offering additional for-pay features are not permitted, nor can players be charged money to download an Application, charged for services related to the Application, or otherwise be required to offer some form of monetary compensation to download or access an Application when those features use the Blizzard Developer APIs. Likewise, Applications may not include interstitials soliciting donations before features or functionality becomes available to the player. Also, players may not be required to watch a video advertisement before accessing a feature or function of the application. – Developer API Terms of Use
Surprisingly the EULA pretty much just says if you make any “User Created Content” (i.e., add-ons) then “Blizzard shall have the unlimited right to … manufacture, publish, distribute, sell, license, sublicense, [etc., etc.] … that User Content”
Blizz seems to view premium pay for video content creators differently as their Video Policy states: “For clarity, please note that as long as the website that hosts your Production provides a free method to allow viewers to see the Production, Blizzard Entertainment will not object to your Production being hosted on that site, regardless of the site’s “for pay” premium service plans.”
Not relevant. That’s for things using the battle.net web API.
Also not relevant. Addons are covered by the third party interfaces clause of the EULA. Blizzard can not claim copyright over something they didn’t create. Addons are not derivative works as its possible to create one that runs in wow with 0% wow lua code in it.
There’s no Terms of Service anymore we all agree to the Blizzard EULA.
And there’s nothing in there preventing a company displaying ads related to wow addons.
watch out. some crazy guy is going to say you’re defending overwolf.
I don’t care about that 
Well, that’s different because I notice that but in the case of ads in programs if I 1) don’t notice it and 2) my bank account is unaffected then I don’t care and didn’t pay
The same thing happened before, when Amazon (aka Twitch) bought curseforge. We will live bro.
Now they just have a new direction, which aims to actually pay developers of these addons with ads.
You’re overreacting
Wouldn’t it be nice to compensate the people who spend all their time developing the things you basically take for free and also for granted and then never think again?
Sounds a bit entitled, unless you develop the addons yourself.
the rules what are you on about, blizzard tried this tactic of making people pay to use mods. and the developers of lua format told them no. i think they need to come back and give overwolf a little bit of their mind.
As long as the addon developers are getting the lion’s share of the profits, I’m all for ads on Overwolf, but that’s why I am still kind of lenient about it… How much money is Overwolf itself making? If me being shown an ad nets the company $1, and only a few pennies go to the addon creators (i would assume they’d keep track of what addons I updated while the ad was showing, and the money would go to those developers?)
70% of ad revenue goes to addon authors according to
https://medium.com/overwolf/how-does-overwolf-make-money-f70a195a4ea9
I think Overwolf is the only addon manager that is paying, but if I’m wrong someone can let me know, for sure!
For all the praise people give WoWup I feel conflicted because it really is just a backdoor around the new owners of Curseforge and circumventing the revenue for the actual creators.
WoWUP > Overwolf
Yes all download WoWUp not this