If so can you tell me what the heck is going on with all those registry changes and calls to operating system files?Īll of these can be stopped and WoWMatrix continues to run well but the thing is that any add-on updater program that makes unwanted calls to operating system files and registry does more that just getting a file of a website and unziping it to the right folder.ĭon't tell me that it's fine by you because you run Linux or Mac and you don't care because you might have no idea on what WoWMatrix does to your system, on Windows at least I see it trying and changing registry entries about ads, blocked sites etc. Has any of you guys tried and run a antivirus like Kaspersky or Norton while runing WoWMatrix? You're missing out on a great add-on simply because you refuse to manually update one add-on that can be updated in about 10 seconds. If them not adding carbonite to some thiefs app means you dont use it then your loss. If you don't like it then tough, you're not the one that had been paying the bandwidth cost from their stolen links. Why would the carbonite team or anyone for that matter co-operate with a group who has blantantly been ripping people off? They've proved themselves untrustworthy and will have to live with the consequences. If they could get away with it they'd still be scamming away, leeching off everyone elses work. The only reason they've done something about any problems is because action my wowinterface and curse has forced them too. Perhaps I am being used as a tool by wowmatrix in an evil plot. I rather like the idea of auto installs too but I will happly install by hand if it means there is a better chance these sites can stick around to keep my addon jones to a managable level. In addition, Carbonite, which this thread is supposed to be about, wants you to come here directly and look at the download page so they can at least remind you that this thing costs a lot of time to keep working and to improve, and to ask you to consider donating if you think it's worth it.Īll in all its not that much trouble to install by hand. That means that every time you download something with Wowmatrix it is costing these guys money and gives Wowmatrix that money instead. When you download from somthing like Wowmatrix you look at ad's that Wowmatrix gets money for but the data still comes from Curse and Wowinterface. For a small site its not much money but these sites are anything but small. In order to pay for this they either have to charge users like you and me or they have to show ad's. Its like this, Wowinterface and Curse have to pay for their servers,internet connection, and any data that is sent from their sites. At the end of the day I'm not going to manually update addons after getting use to wowmatrix. Plus, it's my understanding that they won't update all your addons just those available at particular sites. What other options are there for users? From posts on other sites no one thinks that the curse and wowui updaters are anywhere close to as good as WowMatrix. For the others that it doesn't work with yet, it is prompting me to contact the authors for their permission - hence what I am doing. The current situation is, wowmatrix still works and continues to update almost all my addons. Yes, that begs the questions, what are the reasons the carbonite authors want to avoid wowmatrix? That's the reason for this thread, so that the authors can spell out what they are trying to avoid. The Carbonite authors themselves want to avoid WoWMatrix. You might want to re-read Cairenn's post I am not going to try and pretend to speak for the Carbonite authors, but their motivations to avoid WoWMatrix has nothing to do with what the addon sites did.
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