Tbh, the way people push Jellyfin every single time Plex is mentioned is so extremely annoying that I’m now even less inclined to use it, especially the way the JF zelots completely ignored the legit reason that most people use it.
Comment on Plex now will SELL your personal data
Xanza@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
Seeing the replies in this thread it kinda makes me wonder what Plex actually has to do for these zealots to quit using their platform.
Like do they literally have to steal naked pictures of you and pass them around the office? Like wtf.
KyuubiNoKitsune@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 weeks ago
Xanza@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
Not sure if you understand this or not, but you using, or not using jellyfin doesn’t affect anyone but you. 🤷♂️
If you don’t wanna use it, then don’t use it. You’re still wrong, but that’s up to you lil buddy.
KyuubiNoKitsune@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 weeks ago
Sure thing zelot
Xanza@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
That doesn’t many any sense, because I just specifically told you that it doesn’t matter to anyone but you whether or not you use Jellyfin… If it mattered to me, then yeah, sure. I’d be a zealot. But I don’t give a shit what you personally use.
Also, pointing out the fact that Jellyfin is pretty indisputably better for people in this specific space isn’t zealotry. It’s just good common sense.
Auli@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
My guess when the MPA buys plex data and they have what movies everyone has on their servers.
FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 4 weeks ago
You can literally click “I do not agree” lol. Also the “personal data” is a hashed email (so they don’t get your email), ip address, and watch history. Not very “personal”, and not anything that violates your privacy or is of any concern to you.
moriquende@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
If you connect to the internet from 2 or 3 different locations, the hashed email will be the same, so they just need to compare the locations to those from another service like Instagram and they know who you are and what you’re streaming.
FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 4 weeks ago
And? Why should we care? If I’m already using instagram and other social media platforms that we all know do this, I am clearly ok with it aren’t I?
moriquende@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Companies want your money. The more they know about you, the more possibilities they have to get it. You don’t know what the political landscape may look like down the road. You may feel safe now, but that can change quickly. Imagine you suddenly need to pay back money to the copyright owners unless you can prove you already did?
qqq@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I have no skin in this game, but IPs are definitely not anonymous data. Also there is a lot of great info out there about de-anonymizing seemingly random data. Interestingly enough, this is essentially the Netflix prize dataset that was one of the more famous ones.
endeavor@sopuli.xyz 4 weeks ago
Idunno why you don’t think having an unique hash attatched to your data is no biggie. Especially if that hash is easily cracked in a few years by quantum computers.
qqq@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Nobody is gonna be using a quantum computer to “crack email hashes” of Plex users in a few years… I’m not even sure there is a speedup to hash cracking with quantum computers.
But depending on the hashing algorithm used, it’s likely pretty easy to crack hashes of email addresses today with a normal computer. They’re not particularly high entropy.
FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 4 weeks ago
It’s an email address, it doesn’t matter lol
endeavor@sopuli.xyz 4 weeks ago
Just say you don’t care about privacy and having all your data out there for anyone to do anything they want with.
tonyn@lemmy.ml 4 weeks ago
Need a jellyfin PS5 app
mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
And a Samsung TV app. There’s an entire branch of Samsung TVs that require side loading to get a Jellyfin app installed.
ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml 4 weeks ago
FWIW apparently this is talking about their free content, not about user content.
Xanza@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
And that makes a difference to you?
ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml 4 weeks ago
It does, yeah.
If they are providing the content, they can see that they are providing the content and that much is obvious.
If you are providing the content, you wouldn’t expect that they can identify what you are watching.
That’s the difference to me, yeah.
Xanza@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
Mmmmm gross.
I’ll leave you with this, though. Shit like this is all goalposts. For now it’s just “their” content and not yours. But in 12 months it’s gonna be all content. And what excuse will you make for them, then?
bramkaandorp@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I’m slowly building up Jellyfin to replace it.