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Plex Discover Together shares a bit too much. ... (www.404media.co)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Although the headline focusses on a obvious category of media, it really can go wrong on a lot of other categories as well.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Anyway, if the concern is that Plex, the company, has access to this data, then yeah, you probably should have read the privacy policy a little closer.

come on, you know this is a non answer. also plex shouldn't have this data, it should be for the admin only.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago

It's a non-answer that their privacy policy explicitly states that they will collect this type of information and that they stipulate what kind parties they can share that info with?

https://www.plex.tv/about/privacy-legal/

That's the straightest answer that you're going to get. Privacy policies like this are bullshit, but they're also the norm so acting like it's a non-answer after 20 years of this being the norm seems a little... naive, perhaps?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

What? Plex is not one of those open source, self-hosted, privacy-centric services. Plex can do whatever the hell Plex wants with your watch history, because you agreed to their broad terms of service that said exactly that when you signed up. You chose to run your traffic and authentication through Plex servers because it's convenient, not for privacy reasons.

If you don't like it, use Jellyfin. I'm personally looking into moving, as Plex seems to be getting slowly shittier.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

why are you defending them? sure, they're allowed because they're a big company so they make the rules, but that doesn't mean you have to lick their boots and say oh actually that's fine you made the choice. even big companies SHOULD be ethical. we DESERVE ethical treatment, furthermore, even people who didn't wade through the terms.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

I don't know how you could read that and think I'm defending them.

I'm just telling you how the world works. If you want real privacy, you need to PAY somebody with a rock-solid privacy agreement or fully host it yourself. Plex is neither of those things. Remember, if something that costs money to run is free, then YOU are the product.