[lilsparky]

i think people are getting a bit overprotective with the privacy angle. you don't need to know what addons a person uses. indeed, you don't need to know anything about the person at all. you simply add to one WOWI database counter when a person installs the addon for the first time, and you add to another one when they do an update.

two numbers on the WOWI site that have no information about anybody in them. they are just integers and no information about the user was transmitted to WOWI. this is no more a privacy violation than the current d/l count.

edit: of course, this would not work for manual d/ls. so probably kind of pointless.