For Plex accounts created before March 20, 2025, we require your consent to sell your personal data as described in our Privacy Policy. You can always adjust your share/sell preferences <here>.
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Last shit they pulled I moved to Jellyfin. Today I deleted my Plex account.
Is Kodi still a thing? Been a while since I had a media server but I have another one in the works because fuck streaming services
Nothing is ever truly free in this world. They gotta pay their bills too.
content being watched) on my device(s) and share that information with Plex’s advertising partners
That is a honey pot rights holders will be falling over themselves to pay Plex for access to once they hear about it.
Been telling anyone that would listen that they need to get out of Plex since they implemented that first iteration of trying to require you to sign into your own self hosted server with a Plex.tv account. They were telegraphing what direction they were going in with that kind of user hostile move.
Lots of responses about how it was easy to get around so no big deal (or worse that they liked it for some coping mechanism reason) and that nothing else was as easy and feature rich as Plex so it was worth it.
Well now a few years down the road from that they are now going to use that beach head on everyone’s Plex server they can to collect what is being watched and sell it to the highest bidder.
Man Plex when fully enshitified FAST!
luckily it never had it
Emby is a good option if you don’t want to hop to jellyfin. I have been pleased with it so far. I found the media tag/idenifier to work better/quicker than plex’s.
We are altering the deal. Pray, we do not alter it further.
Selling IP address info. Huh.
Incoming lawsuit in 5…4…
I swear, I found it all on a hard drive laying in the streets, officer!
Damn. They’re really ripping the copper wiring out of the walls.
They prominently point this change out and kind of force you to choose whether you opt in or out. There is a single checkbox to opt out of all. But yes, it’s a bad direction. Just maybe not the apocalypse implied by some.
This is specifically related to watching their free content. You can opt out of the sale & sharing of said data, which is used to play you targeted ads when watching their free content. I am not a big fan, but this is the typical “free” TV spiel. Was there something that changed recently or is it just being recognized now?
Can’t sell my data if I’ve never given them any
someone should make a jellyfish plugin that brings up a consent screen that says you consent to give yourself over to eevee and naruto.
