@E3V3A But also means you lose the metadata stored in .git to manage (incl. update later) via .git without renaming the folder.
Why not have updatenotification iterate over/skip modules on the blacklist? Something like changing this line in node_helper.js:
if (defaultModules.indexOf(moduleName) < 0) {
To the following?
if (defaultModules.indexOf(moduleName) < 0 &&
this.config.ignoreModules.indexOf(moduleName) < 0){
This means if the module is either (1) in defaultModules or (2) in the (new) ignoreModules it gets skipped.
Remember to also add ignoreModules: [] to defaults in updatenotification. You can then avoid altering the filesystem whatsoever.