Thanks for the heads up, not a fan. I've been running it concurrently with Jellyfish but looks like it may be time to ditch it.
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That's why I just can't trust proprietary software anymore. Some of it is unavoidable though without making things unnecessarily hard/worse for yourself.
Shit like this gets pulled all the time, most of it is probably never discovered because it's all hidden somewhere deep in their executables/firmware/binary blobs or whatever shit they push onto you...
Jellyfin FTW!
Problem is my user base are TV and mostly non technical people. No way they setup and maintain a JellyFin install. That’s why Plex just wins.
What? Why would they need to setup a whole install to use your server? Just connect to the server in one of the numerous apps and login to your account?
Made the switch to JF about 6 months ago, Never looked back!
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And if JF won't work for you, Emby is pretty decent as well.
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I left Plex as soon as they made it a pain to not use cloud logins.
Wtf? Why are you asking me to look g into MY system through your server? Get outta here.
Scarily, one can opt to receiving the summaries, but I see no tick box for sharing _my_ activity with friends???
Right - it's controlled server side by Plex and so far as I can tell there's nothing you can do. Your friends would have to go in and turn it off in their accounts. It's disgusting.
I think you can disable it here:
Settings > Account > Sync my watch state and ratings
It's kind of disguised as some feature to allow you to sync movie status among all plex servers. But disabling this would probably disable their ability to see it.
FYI, my setting is marked inactive, I do remember the in-your-face popup on my tv and I disabled all of the sharing. Still got an email this morning.
Isn't the content of that email what the other people see though? If you disable your sharing, then yours won't be shared but others might be unless they decide to disable it. I opted out of those emails.
You can set it in your profile settings
But it's worrying if it's opt-out and not opt-in - even if they did prompt me to look at it when I first logged in after the added the Friends Discovery thing. Although the disclaimer suggests that for US users at least it might be opt-in, I honestly don't remember what the default was for me.
the fuck?
it's a media server. Why do I want 'friends' involved at all?
This here. This setting is absolutely controllable and if memory serves me right i had to enable it when the feature rolled out. In fact, I just made a brand new account and after signing in the very first option is to either accept or change the setting.
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I assume this stuff is US only at the mo' because I can't see those settings at all.
UK here and I can see it
exegamer76's comment above gives the link
It seems to be the following:
Go to https://app.plex.tv/desktop/#!/profile/edit
Click on "Privacy Settings" at the bottom of the page
Dialog from the screenshot pops up
Ahh, thanks!
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umm??? How does it share this data with respect to its own privacy statements???
https://www.plex.tv/about/privacy-legal/
M. What information does Plex collect from my Plex Media Server?
Plex does not share information about your Personal Content with third parties. Plex does not collect:
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Content titles of your Personal Content.
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Filenames EXCEPT those that may be collected under Debugging Information below.
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Metadata for Personal Content (e.g., information about the specific file, cover art, subtitles, running length, etc.) EXCEPT to customize viewed content syncing to enhance your account or if you have enabled metadata matching capabilities in which case such data will be anonymously sent to us or you have integrated with a third-party control or playback mechanism that requires us to access your metadata to play the relevant content (e.g., if you use Amazon Alexa to play a particular song or movie from your Personal Content, then our Services may search your Personal Content metadata in order to find and play the song or movie requested.)
so what's the option now? jellyfin?
This is why I don't use Plex.
I went to install it once because I heard it was good. It said the next step of the installer is make a plex online account so I can log in. I looked for the 'I don't want online I want local' option but I didn't see one. So I uninstalled.
Nowhere did it explain what if any access Plex servers have to my media library (metadata or files), so I said no thanks I'll just go back to using folders.
Glad to see I made the right choice.
Just use Plex offline and you are good to go. If you don't know how to use Plex offline read up about reverse proxies like Nginx and how you can allow access to download meta data but block basically all the rest and even fake that Plex thinks its online.
I guess you could do that…or you could switch to a company that hasn’t gone to $hit like Jellyfin or Emby.
Please elaborate more on the blocking, such as what IPs should be whitelisted.
OMG this is a company killer mistake. I will never use or recommend Plex. wow
Making me more glad i never had plex. DLNA ftw!
I've had plex and the arrs going but without a VPN (USA), got hundreds of take down notices sent to an old email address and went to spam folder, and two personal paper letters from ISP. I decided to shut down the arrs and haven't torrented in about a few months.
A few weeks ago I added someone on plex to share my media with. Just got a 3rd letter from my ISP for sharing media. Plex is the only thing running that could cause this.
Time to finally shut it down and load Jellyfin. It's been coming for some time; but this is the nail in the coffin.
Do any of you check your privacy settings? Because you can turn off sharing data with other users.
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