In reply to Sarah Gooding.

Sarah,
For that to happen….either the companies have to have access to my hosting to show up a notification or have my e-mail address.

You can see my e-mail that I type to post this comment, all WP based website admins have this.

A lot of this touches the privacy issues.

Obviously you are not going to take my e-mail address and add it to your mailing list, specially non-wptavern mailing list.

I would have an issue with a plugin/theme author contacting me via the admin dashboard or directly to my e-mail.

It’s bad enough that my admin dashboard gets the “you have used xyz plugin, please rate”, “get tips and tricks by subscribing to e-mail news letter, give me your e-mail address” “get pro version of xyz plugin” type messages.
I am also against automatic updates, WP itself, the company/author of xyz plugin, etc…

How would most companies get my contact information? I don’t provide it, the e-mail I use to comment on WPTavern and other sites in the WP Universe is not my main e-mail address.

I think the owner/admin of a website should be doing the work, not the authors of plugins/themes/core.
I login on my websites and check for any updates, update. Tadaaaaaaaa. Putting the onus on anyone outside the owner/admin……is irresponsible.

Should Akismet inform you/Justin about an update or should you/Justin log-in once a while to check things out.

If site 1 has an update on Akismet……sites 2-2000000 will have to have their Akismet updated too.

By the way, after I do my own site updates…I come on WPtavern to read any new posts. I then go check e-mails. All by 10:00 local time.