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Plex crossed the line a long time ago.

Yeah gross.

I have 7 people who use my plex. They have all been provided logins. I set up gmails for them etc so they dont get anything. But still.

The sheer quantity of analytics from both Plex clients and servers, regardless of what options you select, is the number one blocked item on my Adguard Home install. Plex is, by no stretch of the imagination, not at all respectful of privacy.

Plex has sadly lost its way, and this year I finally switched over to Jellyfin and it's much better than the subsequent years I've tried to move across. Other than simplicity of exposing your server on the internet, Plex's value proposition has tanked.

You accepted the terms

Collecting data on a bunch of people's illegal (in the eyes of the media mafia) libraries. What could possibly go wrong. SMH

What exactly you plex users paid for? I was always confused. Remote access?

That’s the question when I switched from kodi to jellyfin. That’s the same question I am asking myself trying to get homeassistent cloud.

meanwhile me with a 500gb portable SSD of Linux isos and no TOS/tracking to report to :laff:

Which is a good alternative to consider? Jellyfin or Emby? Might as well switch during black Friday.

Man I'm even more glad I went with Jellyfin over Plex when I kicked up my media server last year.

next up... docker containers start reporting user data

It was clearly obvious from the very beginnings of Plex when they forked out of XBMC that they were shady and in it for the cash.

Not cool Plex, not cool.

I was just about to buy Plex Lifetime on Black Friday, looks like that isn’t going to happen now

I remember getting downvoted to all hell somewhere when I suggested switching to Jellyfin because of Plex’s awful privacy policy and how they kept shoving the “free on Plex” crap on my home screen every time Plex updated. Switched to jellyfin about a year ago. Goodbye Plex, don’t let the door hit your ass on the way out.

I’m glad I switched to Jellyfin a long time ago.

What's up with companies making shitty defaults nowadays? Who would think this actually brings value for the majority of people hosting their own media content? This another overreach trying to act like Netflix?

Really lame Plex, I thought we were cool.

Found this post on what the setting looks like and I just unchecked the box , so it’s still relevant:

https://www.reddit.com/r/PleX/comments/72zg10/how_to_turn_off_plex_taking_your_data/

Emby ftw

You should probably read the entire EULA before you get all angry and self righteous.

WTF

A self hosted app that isn't self hosted, baffling why people use plex instead of Jellyfin

I can’t wait to hear your full take on the next podcast episode.

I started looking into Plex AS this all started happening. Fortunately, I haven’t had the time to spend on setting up any media components, but man am I glad I didn’t go this route.

Shame, Plex. I expected a better respect for privacy, from a white and orange logo on a black background.

Dude, I have been telling y'all Plex is going down fast. Just set up emby or jellyfin and be happy knowing your setup isn't profiting off of you

Surely Plex is off-topic in this sub

You can turn that off...

I use Jellyfin.

I can't recommend Jellyfin enough, it's a perfect replacement for Plex

Why does it claim it will auto default to private after 2 years unless you consent again if they are defaulting to friends only from what I can tell.

Makes it seem like they are having to cover a privacy law by claiming it defaults to private but it sure as hell didn’t on my profile.

100% agree, when I received the email I got really bad vibes from the whole thing.

I am sure they will come back and say "ah sorry our bad, we will fix this" but once the trust is broken like this, nah I'll go to jellyfin thanks.

Get rid of Plex and use Emby

What the Frick I wasn't watching 5KPornHazelMoore200129DoViRemuxFrameSter.mkv

I first started looking into an XBMC replacement when my OG Xbox died and I thought there must be some new FOSS replacement to put on some Raspi. Must have been 5 years back? Lots of "experts" sent me to Plex, I took one look at the EULA and said no effing way.

So this is not news to me that they keep and run stats on all my files, watching patterns etc. I have a feeling most users filled up their media servers with torrents and questionably sourced files, not legal rips, and I found no reason to opt into something like that even if my files were all legal. Jellyfin is mature enough at this point for my needs, I know it's not perfect, but it's all local.

I drop Plex years ago when they started doing shifty stuff. If I was sharing content with another person or someone with sharing content with me it it would start getting blocked and turned off. I guess they don't want people to use their software

You guys are so lucky, you got the e-mail. Plex didn't send me any e-mail.

Reading the comments, I guess you all never go and never have gone to the movies being so secretive about others knowing what you've watched.