Don’t forget every email provider who accepted the email (and all three letter agencies who monitor unencrypted email) also have that info now as well.

Plex crossed the line a long time ago.

Yeah gross.

I have 7 people who use my plex. They have all been provided logins. I set up gmails for them etc so they dont get anything. But still.

I think you only got this because you are the server owner, which you already have access to all that info.

I hope jellyfin comes fully to samsung tvs soon since the only thing stopping me from moving to jellyfin is my dad uses a samsung tv and I live to far away to go sideload it for him

There's nothing you can do to stop Plex collecting the data, but you can at least stop your friends seeing what you're watching by adjusting the privacy settings.

Literally exploring other options. Plex, your days are numbered, cause this is BS! 🤬🤬🤬

Wow. This did step.over a line. Disgusting move by Plex.

Now everyone knows all my weird kinks! How am I supposed to explain my weird milk, baby diaper, shaming fetish to them? Unless...

Lol, time to use alternative media servers.

You guys are so lucky, you got the e-mail. Plex didn't send me any e-mail.

Reading the comments, I guess you all never go and never have gone to the movies being so secretive about others knowing what you've watched.

If the software is free, you pay with your privacy

Get rid of Plex and use Emby

Surely Plex is off-topic in this sub

I switched to jellyfin when my internet was dead and I couldn't quite get my content to work.

Jellyfin is decentralized and is 100% free

I haven't found an option that plex has over jellyfin yet

The subtitles bug I get on my ShieldTV is a little weird but after they started pushing live TV with ads, I decided to abandon it.

I have had a lifetime pass since year 2

Its been a long time since i was a plex user, can someone explain how they get ahold of that data from your selfhosted solution?

You should probably read the entire EULA before you get all angry and self righteous.

You can turn that off...

You Plex and Emby users deserve what you get

Jellyfin is only good choice

It’s not necessarily from your server, even if you just mark a movie/show as “Watched”, it’ll show up on your feed. No one will know if it’s from your server or not

This is why they forced everybody through a privacy settings prompt recently.

Left Plex for Emby (when they started adding their own content and marketing it to me) few years ago, never looked back. You are absolutely right, one email like this and I’m gone. Emby does what it’s supposed to do and just that, that’s all I care about. Jellyfin looks cool too..

I know what the discussion on my favourite podcast is gonna be next week. This is kinda shenanigans. Ive had plex SO bloody long I dont remember ever getting this option to set it. Now I only have 1 friend, but still. Setting changed.

Edit: I commented on why im still using Plex the other day

​

My Jellfin server has crashed a few times for no ryhme or reason without having touched it for a couple of weeks (no patches, no watchtower for docker, just dead). Plex has been fine.
Plex has proper intro skipping.
I was able to set up parental controls on Plex very quickly without any headache.
The wife/kid factor. Plex was/is easier for them.
The amount of time I have invested into managing Plex over the past decade is still less than I have into managing Jellyfin in the past 3 years.
Lifetime plexpass was gifted to me.

Œuf I hope this isn’t occurring in Europe…