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.

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!

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???

https://imgur.com/a/NM1esO6

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.

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.

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:

• Content titles of your Personal Content.

• Filenames EXCEPT those that may be collected under Debugging Information below.

• 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?

Do any of you check your privacy settings? Because you can turn off sharing data with other users.

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!

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.

Use jellyfin. Problem solved

Get rid of Plex and use Emby

If the software is free, you pay with your privacy

It was clearly obvious from the very beginnings of Plex when they forked out of XBMC that they were shady and in it for the cash.

Man I'm even more glad I went with Jellyfin over Plex when I kicked up my media server last year.