I will never install anything on my computer from Curse, now that they’ve been bought out by that awful company. I’ll install manually like a caveman before I trust Overwolf with anything.
Thanks for the technical argument that doesn’t relate to my post at all.
And honestly, you have every right to feel that way and choose that.
The fact that they changed their API to kill all rival addon managers is gross and Overwolf as a company in general is pretty gross.
I however don’t have the time to manage the over 100 addon’s I run manually. I wish WoWup still had access to the API sadly they don’t. I think the addon manager monopoly is very gross, but I’m not going back to managing my addon’s manually and using the addon manager or not going to curse directly to get addon’s still supports Overwolf.
So it’s damned if you do damned if you don’t 
Personally I’ll use the stand alone curseforge addon manager until anything devious surfaces.
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Some of us are old enough to remember when their program was filled with bloat and spyware.
Only program I’ve downloaded in the last decade that has caused real harm to my PC.
I won’t touch Overwolf with a ten foot pole.
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People seem perfectly happy enabling monopolies as long as there’s no immediate visible harm caused by them. The problem always comes later, after the monopoly has become firmly entrenched and impossible to break up and the masses start saying, “so hey maybe this wasn’t such a good idea after all.”
Similar things have happened and are now happening in the web browser space. Everyone happily waltzed into a web browser monopoly with IE until Microsoft realized that they no longer had to try since they’d captured the whole of the internet and IE started sucking. We’re now seeing a repeat of that except this time it’s Google and Chrome that have captured 80% of the browser market.
Monopolies are bad, plain and simple, because it allows companies to become dictators of the markets they command, and a benevolent dictator is still a dictator and could turn at any moment.
No one forced you to do anything…
I’m still using the same addons I always have. Still updating them manually as I always do.
Isn’t Overwolf having spyware a bit of a rumor?
^^ Same here. I dislike what Overwolf has done, so I won’t ever use them. I update them all manually. One of the things it has taught me is how many addons I actually don’t really need. lol
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Where can I find this? When I visited the website it installed Overwolf anyway even though the link specifically said no overwolf
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Just to be clear, you were not forced against your will. You decided you rather make the change to Overwolf than manually update your addons. You had another option, but decided against it, with your free will.
I understand the intent of your words, and am not in disagreement with that… However you are over exaggerating in a way to force a narrative, which has become an all to common method to direct a point of view in our society. It’s not healthy, and it’s not okay.
Go to https://download.curseforge.com/ and then scroll down to here and in the drop down for windows you select the standalone app alpha.
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what monopoly?
i just updated my addons on curseforge like usual last tuesday.
Thanks man!
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Sure it does! You talk about ‘workarounds’ for this Overwolf thing, when you could simply not use an addon manager at all and not have to ‘workaround’ anything. So make a decision whether the dubious convenience is worth dealing with your ‘workarounds’ or don’t. Manually updating addons isn’t even that difficult; that process has also gotten much simpler over the years.
Just goes to show how people get so accustomed to excess and convenience that they’ll bemoan anything that they feel takes even a small amount of that ‘convenience’ away.
Where it lands on the scale of “convenience” to “necessity” depends on how many addons one uses and how frequently they’re updated, really. I like to try to keep the set of addons I use lean, so going manually probably wouldn’t be a problem for me. On the other hand, for someone using 10-20+ with some with a rapid release cycle, manual updates might be prohibitive.
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You mean the old Curse where you had to pay to update more than one addon at a time? That was like 10+ years ago. You can now get it for free as a standalone app that updates all of them at once.
I had an issue when I needed Overwolf installed too, but now you don’t. No issue for me.
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i use Opera for like 15 years.
Sadly Opera dropped its unique engine and became Chromium-based a few years back, so it’s ultimately part of the Chrome dominance too. It’s like the various browsers that were around in the early 2000s that were just IE reskins (IIRC one was called Marathon).
i … don’t care or follow any of that.
i double click and it works.