If you want to see how many watchers/forks a project has, it's easy enough to pull down the data yourself:

  mike@Fuzzbutt:~$ curl -s https://github.com/mikecardwell/gpgit|grep -A 1 ' title="Watchers" '|tail -1
              10
  mike@Fuzzbutt:~$ curl -s https://github.com/mikecardwell/gpgit|grep -A 1 ' title="Forks" '|tail -1
              2
  mike@Fuzzbutt:~$ 

Then you can use a locally hosted image and embed the counters in your own content. We're only talking a couple of lines of code here.