Lol @ plugin authors “striking” by not providing support. That currently happens to a huge amount of plugins.

Anyways, with all due respect to plugin authors…………I do not want you knowing that I have your plugin installed on my website. I do not want to use freemius, I do not want to give you anonymous non-personal data.

The following is none of your business:

WordPress version I have installed, what plugins I use (yours and others), what theme I am using, my php version, mysql version I am using, everything else version I am using.

No I will not rate your plugin just because you asked me as soon as I activated the plugin. No I will not subscribe to your plugin newsletter as soon as I activated the plugin. I will rate your plugin/theme whenever I feel like it, and if I feel like it. I don’t want your newsletter where 60% of the content is about the PRO version of your plugin/theme.

The only time I want a plugin, theme and core to “call home” is to check for updates. Outside that, no. Obviously latest tweet/insta/facebook page thing is the exception to this rule.

Metrics and usage of plugins on MY site belong to ME.