Why You Should NOT use Curseforge

Curses' parent company is Twitch, whose parent company is amazon. Look here for why that matters.
Curse claims to take a whopping 30% of ad-revenue from modders, this is a pretty tall cost considering the few services other than plain hosting that Curse provides, in reality, that 30 percent could even be higher as "There is a certain Popularity threshold your project must reach in order to start generating points. That threshold is internal and you cannot view where your project is on the ranking" (Curseforge, 2024)
In addition to the previous, Curseforge does not have its "Reward Program" enabled by default, meaning that if a developer makes a popular mod and forgets to turn it on, they lose out on all that money.
The Curseforge launcher is very unintuitive. How can I have proof of something so subjective? people are CONSTANTLY messaging me to figure out how to do the simplest thing such as import or download a modpack
Curseforge launcher requires Overwolf
The Curseforge app is based off of Electron
Curseforge makes you wait 5 seconds to get a download, and direct download links are hard to get (makes it harder to use curl or wget to download from curse)
Curseforge has pretty laid back rules around cheats

If you just want to play some minecraft i highly recommend Prism Launcher https://prismlauncher.org/

If you need help with Curseforge please try using prism instead first

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