Not the brightest of those, imo: a while back they’ve opted their users in “discover together”, which is basically sharing your watch history with your plex friends. That went over as well as you’d expect: www.404media.co/plex-users-fear-discover-together…
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glitching@lemmy.ml 1 week ago
not a plex user but someone burried the lede here… to me, this is the neon sign that says GTFO:
we noticed that you’ve accessed libraries in the past
what business of yours is it to notice my private comings and goings?! what other actionable intel do y’all keep in your logs?! bye!
HyperfocusSurfer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
MaggiWuerze@feddit.org 1 week ago
External servers are shared with you, they can just check which owners have libraries shared with them. That’s not some nefarious logging, its information they need to offer that function
Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
Counterpoint: I can access my friend’s Jellyfin servers, and they can access mine, without anyone else in the world knowing what the fuck we’re doing. Saying “It’s necessary” always begs the question “Why did you make it necessary?”
MaggiWuerze@feddit.org 1 week ago
Because Plex handles the initial connection for you allowing the clients to lunch through CGNAT and other shit. Also they handle the authentication, which I would fully agree would be nice to have independent, but that’s the reason