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Plex crossed a line with "Your week in review" emails today. (alien.top)
submitted 11 months ago by Ironicbadger@alien.top to c/main@selfhosted.forum
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As you may have seen Plex decided it was OK today to send an email showing me what my friends have been watching. To be clear, this is Plex telling other people what I've been watching from my server, with my files, and this is not OK.

https://imgur.com/a/DYR4wlh

We all knew it was a matter of time before Plex started collecting data on our libraries and sharing it with advertisers. What happened to their "we don't know, and don't want to know, what is on your server"?. This, for me, is proof that those fears were absolutely founded in reality. On what planet would I ever want this information to be shared with friends on family on an OPT OUT basis?

It's totally unacceptable to collect this data in the first place. It's totally unacceptable to share this information with uniquely identifiable information. And it's totally unacceptable to do this without explicitly asking me if it's OK.

Unfortunately there is nothing you can do about this as a server admin, because technically these are Plex users and their marketing email preferences are controlled on the user side in the Plex website preferences. Not on your server.

This is an absolutely egregious overreach.

Thank goodness there are alternatives available in the form of Jellyfin and Emby. I left my Plex server up after the Jellyfin January challenge we did on the Self-Hosted podcast but because of this I feel that I have no choice but to take it down for good.

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[โ€“] Labeled90@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Has jellyfin's UI improved? My wife preferred plex, and plex has a native Samsung app ๐Ÿ˜ฎโ€๐Ÿ’จ

As much as I want to switch, Samsung app store has me stuck currently.

[โ€“] Chaphasilor@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

They are working on getting the Jellyfin app to the Samsung Tizen store, but it's a slow process. The app itself if working quite well already, if you manually install it (which is rather simple if you have docker installed)

[โ€“] AceSLS@ani.social 1 points 11 months ago

Jellyfins UI is fine imo. You can also use Kodi with some addons to connect to your Jellyfin server.

Why not just sideload the apk and try it for yourself? Android doesn't bind you to specific stores, just sideload F-Droid and get Jellyfin there (or download it directly from F-Droids/Jellyfins homepage)

[โ€“] ITaggie@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Damn, I know FireTV app store and of course Google Play Store have Jellyfin clients. Sucks that Samsung is so limited.