"impacts on what data is shared and how it is shared." - major issue.

I had been using one of those plugins that allow you to add social share / find us on fb, twit, etc plugins on several sights..

It took a long time and lots of searching to find one that loaded it's images from local files and did not automatically pull scripts from third party servers..

well after a couple of years it was bought out by one of this 'add/this / addToAny' type places - that offered an update very quickly and was now using the install and surfing data (of all the previous installs and their web site's visitors) for data collection.

I'd also like a notice when wp pulls plugins - like wp-spamshield(?) which is one some of my sites and never gets an update notice.. but maybe there should be some notices about that.