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[-] [email protected] 204 points 2 years ago

This is simply a rehash/summary of an original article on 404media. Beyond that, you would have to be living under a rock to think that Plex was interested in what their users actually wanted. I ran a Plex server for years until I got fed up with trying to turn off some new self serving misfeature with every new update. It's been clear for years that offering a self hosting media server solution is simply a bridgehead for Plex to seek every more revenue opportunities, even for paying ~~victims~~ customers. I moved to and recommend Jellyfin- comparable user experience (minus the crap), use the same library, apps for all your devices, open source and completely self contained.

[-] [email protected] 56 points 2 years ago

Smells like windows, Facebook, Google, ...

Good starters but today will just crush you to earn that Q3 +3%

I don't even have anything like Plex, but because of you I'll check out lemmyfin, I mean jellyfin.

[-] [email protected] 25 points 2 years ago

Problem is jellyfin doesn’t have apps on stuff, therefore my family can’t reach the content on their TVs without side loading and that’s so far beyond any of them it isn’t even funny

[-] [email protected] 19 points 2 years ago
[-] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago

To be fair, an app for Samsung TVs would be great. Currently you need a complicated work around to get it working.

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[-] [email protected] 21 points 2 years ago

I don't think the anime titles are bothering as many people as the unintentional exposure of their pornography.

[-] [email protected] 30 points 2 years ago

I do too much curating to have my lists leaked. If you want access to my excellent tastes, I require payment in advance.

[-] [email protected] 32 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Sorry, I searched for Plex plus your username, you're already compromised:

Busty Babes 8: Even the boobs have boobs in this one.

[-] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago

It’s boobs all the way down.

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[-] [email protected] 182 points 2 years ago

Love how the headline equates the shame of viewing porn with the shame of viewing anime

[-] [email protected] 97 points 2 years ago

It's called hentai, and it's art.

[-] [email protected] 17 points 2 years ago
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[-] [email protected] 58 points 2 years ago

Like the old joke goes, "when I'm watching anime and my mom walks in, I alt tab to porn because it's easier to explain"

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[-] [email protected] 101 points 2 years ago

Jellyfin is going to explode in popularity (it kind of has already)

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[-] [email protected] 54 points 2 years ago

Lol, I just finished building my JellyFin server last weekend too. Bye Plex!

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[-] [email protected] 51 points 2 years ago

I've been seeing this story do the rounds and I feel like we're burying the lede here.

Who the hell is watching porn over Plex? That is somehow simultaneously the most uninformed and the most complicated way to access porn.

[-] [email protected] 29 points 2 years ago

The original article mentioned "softcore" porn, like old school cinemax movies where it's porn, but thinly veiled into an actual movie.

Not like hardcore 10 minute porn movies, just semi-skeevy smut that you'd rather not have other people know you're watching. (50 shades?)

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[-] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago

It doesn't seem like a huge stretch. If somebody had a stored collection, and didn't share the server with anybody, why not point Plex at that folder? There's even an *arr for it, so it fits right into the usual stack.

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[-] [email protected] 50 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I'll admit this feature should have definitely been opt-in. But when the update came out there was a big pop-up on your screen when you logged in. Where you just turned all of this off and hit save. It is super easy to disable.

The sharing what I watch with friends part is dumb. But it is pretty cool how you can recommend stuff to friends.

[-] [email protected] 42 points 2 years ago

I got the pop up. I disabled it. But I just got an email from Plex telling me everything my family member watched in the last week. This is complete shit!!

[-] [email protected] 22 points 2 years ago

You opted out, but they didn't

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[-] [email protected] 44 points 2 years ago

If you're using Plex for porn and also adding friends on it, what were you thinking in the first place? Like, it was so obvious something like this was going to happen, and that's besides the already existant risk of accidentally sharing the wrong library with your friend.

It's a cool feature, it obviously would have been better if it filtered by age rating or adult film by default to begin with but I really see this as an overreaction.

[-] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago

Stash is far better for xxx than Plex anyway. It was made for it.

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[-] [email protected] 37 points 2 years ago

Stopped using Plex long ago but who thought this was a good idea?!

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[-] [email protected] 32 points 2 years ago

This is far from the first horrible thing I've heard Plex do. Why are they like this?

[-] [email protected] 41 points 2 years ago

Enshittification is the norm for all for profit endeavours. Exceptions to this are exceedingly rare and usually just a matter of time rather than truly being an exception.

[-] [email protected] 31 points 2 years ago

It's the latest exciting chapter of "Plex and the Quest for Investibility!"

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[-] [email protected] 30 points 2 years ago

The great enshittening of internet platforms continues

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[-] [email protected] 26 points 2 years ago

Wow, glad I switched to Jellyfin.

[-] [email protected] 25 points 2 years ago

I opted out of plex as soon as it asked me to create an online account.

You don't need that for Jellyfin.

[-] [email protected] 21 points 2 years ago

I’m a little shocked at how difficult it seems to be to find instructions on how to disable this feature. Pretty sure I got it, but it wasn’t a feature called discover together but a series of sharing options.

[-] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago

The fact that you're only "pretty sure" and not "entirely sure" is pretty shitty on plex in itself.

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[-] [email protected] 21 points 2 years ago

Jellyfin ftw

[-] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago

Would love to just pay someone to access their jellyfin server. Does something like this exist?

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