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>.
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>.
Not if you use plex, which is the entire draw
Yeah, but then you’re not self-hosting, you’re paying or using their free services to manage that for you.
You’re hosting the media still. It’s basically a hybrid between getting Netflix and running Jellyfin. They handle the delivery, you handle the media.
Yup. And letting them collect data on what goes through their service is the cost.
Very few people care. So no, for most it is not really a no brainer. It’s more effort and work pretty much everywhere. Try to use jellyfin on the Xbox client and tell me that isn’t trash.
Yes. No one is debating that. The point is “why would you ever use plex?” is a simple answer: you can easily and quickly watch your pirated shit on all your devices with basically no technical knowledge at all. Yes people are willing to compromise for that, many people simply do not give a shit either way. But this insistence that people here “can’t possibly get why anyone would use Plex” is just insane to me.
Happens with most services.
I’m sure that one boutique website you shopped on had buried in the T&C that they can sell your data.