Destroy Overwolf and make your own Addon Manager

Directly to the blizzard developers. Likely will not see it but community, what you think?

If Blizz created their own Addon Manager it would solve the problem of this lowlife Overwolf who WILL sell your personal data if you choose to use them. Oh and the adverts unless you pay them and get a premium version (unconfirmed).

Either singularly install your addons from October 20th or get behind Blizz creating their own manager.

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yes and no

i meanā€¦ bossfights already get designed with a ridiculous addon like dbm in mind and i hate that blizz does this

but having the ability to directly download addons through blizz themselves maybe on the inlog screen would be nice

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Where does it say they will sell your actual personal data?

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Overwolf is the kind of cancer you wonā€™t notice until youā€™re diagnosed.

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You have my support but please do not use cancer in that context thanks .

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Our new Addon Updater Software is in the store now for only 19.99$! Buy it now and recieve the mechanic bear mount for free!

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*Gonorrhea

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Thereā€™s a mount?..Shut up and take my money!

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You have a good post but go ahead be an edgelord and use terms like you are just find it very distasteful the context you are using but if you see no harm or wrong knock yourself out .

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Sorry - got the wrong ailment there for a second. Itā€™s coldsores, so thatā€™sā€¦ what, herpes?

Correctā€¦Herpes simplex.

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Lovely. Way way away from the point, but Iā€™m glad we nailed that down.

We went from a treatable STD to an ailment for which there is no cure. Good sh*t.

I saw what you wrote before you did the edit if you want to carry on with that attitude then so be it .There is a far better thread here

That has mature and constructive feedback

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In his mind under the tinfoil hat where he thinks that our personal data is not completely worthless. He is right about the advertisements, but i used this program for a long time and the ads are barely noticable because they are muted and placed in a way that its not hiding anything. Lot of people used this program with no issues for years, but now people needed something new to hate this week.

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The word youā€™re looking for is ā€œmistakeā€ - those do in fact happen. And the reality, regardless, is incurable.

Edit: This asides, youā€™re nitpicking. The point I was making - which still stands - is that this is a corporate move which will inevitably bite us all in a tender place. Maybe focus on that, ye.

Jeff Bezos didnā€™t become a multi-billionaire, by selling books and dvds online, an enormous chunk of the value of online services, is indeed your personal dataā€¦ just saying.

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Yes, but Amazon use it for their own needs, they dont sell it on. You can also delete it.

Itā€™s funny, Iā€™ve told them not to record my browsing and use my buying history and they struggle to recommend stuff to me!

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I didnā€™t meant that it canā€™t be selled, but that they sell it and then what? It wouldnā€™t affect 99% of the population in any way because our personal data is completely worthless.

Thatā€™s why i always have to smile when someone is worried about his/her personal data, likeā€¦ donā€™t worry, we are not that important and our data is not that interesting,

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Vast numbers of Third party companies, sell through Amazonā€¦ Amazon keeps all the data, this means it can sell data products based on analyticsā€¦ it also means it can launch competitor products based on its analytics of its commercial partnersā€™ sales (Wall Street Journal).

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In a data valuation context, an Income Approach measures the incremental cash flows, which the use cases are expected to generate.

These incremental cash flows are derived from a comparison of the
organisationā€™s cash flows ā€˜withā€™ and ā€˜withoutā€™ the data.

With the data, the incremental cash flows could be in the form
of incremental revenue, decreased costs, or both.

  • ā€˜Putting a Value On Dataā€™ - PWC (PriceWaterhouseCooper)
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