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Plex now want to SELL your personal data (slrpnk.net)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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I consent to Plex to: (i) sell certain personal information (hashed emails, advertising identifiers) to third-parties for advertising and marketing purposes; and (ii) store and/or access certain personal information (advertising identifiers, IP address, content being watched) on my device(s) and share that information with Plex’s advertising partners. This data is used to deliver personalised ads and content, ad and content measurement, audience insights and product development. Your consent applies to all devices on which you have Plex installed. You can withdraw your consent at any time in Account Settings or using this page.

Soure: https://www.plex.tv/vendors/ (Might have to clear cache)

Can also read about the changes here: https://www.plex.tv/about/privacy-legal/

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[–] 33 points 1 year ago (3 children)

For those who aren't quite ready to delete their accounts get, this link buried on their privacy page can let you opt out: https://www.plex.tv/vendors-us

Not sure why "us" is in the URL, I'm in Canada

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Didn’t even need to dig. As soon as I opened Plex in my browser, it gave me a giant full screen “hey we want to sell your data. Do you consent” page. I disagree with data sale in general, but at least they didn’t go out of their way to bury the opt out. In fact, they actually went out of their way to present the notification in a way that was impossible to miss. If you’re capable of reading, you’ll know what the popup is for.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    Yeah, I mean this seems like much ado about nothing. Don't get me wrong...I'd prefer Plex never even attempt this, but they make it dead easy to opt out. There's literally an "All No" checkbox. It's been that way for a while. Every time someone posts another "Plex sux and steals your data!" thread, I check it and everything is still set to opt-out. They've never auto-opted-in anything, unlike how back when I still had a Facebook account I'd have to constantly re-opt-out of things because FB seemingly changed my settings to opt back in every time the moon entered its waning phase. Roku does that too. Every time I go into the "secret" menu and turn off ads and stuff, then there's a system update, you have to go turn that stuff back off.

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