2d ago

Plex now want to SELL your personal data

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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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Jellyfin is the way. Costs nothing other than the hardware needed and nobody is selling anything about you.
Our personal streaming library with Jellyfin is bigger than any public service and we can add to it from VHS, DVD, Blueray, though extra equipment was required for the VHS/Blueray.
It’s also available anywhere we go and we can set up separate accounts for different family members. There’s even a phone app.
- But not Fire tablets (kids profile) or Samsung TV or many others that Plex currently supports.
  JellyFin android phone app's UI is a little weird at times, but does work pretty well for me.
  ...
  What I would adore from any app would be an easy way to upload specific content and metadata via SFTP or to blob storage and accessible with auth (basic, token, or cloud) to more easily share it with friends/family/myself without having to host the whole damn library on the Internet or share my home Internet at inconvenient times.
  Client-side encryption would be a great addition to that (eg. password required, that adds a key to the key ring). And of course native support in the JellyFin/other apps for this. It could even be made to work with a JS & WASM player.
  
  Checkout 3rd party jellyfin android apps. Findroid is working pretty well. Theres another one called Streamyfin which is catching up and a third one called Fladder, which is maybe a bit too early in development.
  
  on the tablet it should work fine in the browser. maybe that would also work on the TV, that's exactly what most TV apps do anyway.
- How big is that library supposed to be that it is larger than all public ones? There are some with 10'000s of videos.
  
  We have over 15,000 videos in TV episodes, alone. Not counting movies.
  So…yeah.
  
  Wow. But now I had to look it up, the German "ARD Mediathek" has over 200'000 files, a playtime of 100'000 hours.
- feels so much more illegal than just streaming for yourself tho
  
  I mean you are literally hosting pirated content for anyone to see, is it denial or is it really less illegal? Yall mention multiple user accounts, if ppl pay you in any way you are now a bootlegger?
  
  Cute of you to make such assumption based on zero evidence but just your feels.
  
  I literally said "feels" lol
  
  Got to change that mindset tbh
  It shouldn't feel that way at all IMHO

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