What's the deal with overwolf

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Overwolf Client and Addon Management - PLEASE Don't Support This!

TL;DR: A company notorious for its ad-riddled client, which recently bought out CurseForge (formerly owned by Twitch), is trying to completely monopolize WoW addon management by trying to shut down or otherwise block API access for any of its far more convenient competitors, such as CurseBreaker and wowup.io and thus force anyone wanting to update addons to install their client. So Wowhead recently highlighted what Overwolf - the new owners of CurseForge, which was previously owned by Twitch - …

Overwolf is a cancer we cannot allow in Wow

I know mods and the managers we use to handle them are not really Blizzard’s business, But mods are an integral part of wow and one of the reasons the game is as enjoyable as it is. Overwolf is a scumbag company well known for installing malware into people’s computers, and they are now all but holding mods on a ransom. Still, I know many people did not care, many of us already manually install our addons, and some others have found an avenue through the use of third party managers. And this …