It is beyond me why they keep shooting themselves in the foot with these updates.
It’s like every new feature they put out is an intentional reminder that they have access to your watch history/library data, and then their user base gets angry all over again.
Maybe they’re trying to push out the users that are using it for those reasons so they can market it to a broader audience that doesn’t give a shit about privacy? I have no idea. But the drawbacks are really starting to outweigh the benefits, I’m having a hard time imagining who this is really for now.
RaoulDook@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Or they just didn’t assume that people are using Plex for porn. I would never put porn on mine since it’s connected to my smart TV and my kids can access it. All the years that I’ve had a plex server at home, I never considered adding porn to its library so I assume there are many other users who use it the same way.
Mine actually gets used for music streaming more than anything, since I can stream my thousands of MP3s from any browser on the LAN.
Patches@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
It doesn’t have to be porn for people to not want to know what they are watching to be shared.
I’m sure the RIAA is ecstatic that Plex knows what MP3s you have on your server, and when and where you listen to them.
I’m sure your bible-thumping racist nan would love to know you watched Roots, or MSNBC, or anything LGBTQ. That’ll go over well.
HaggierRapscallier@feddit.nl 10 months ago
I hadn’t realised Americans said ‘nan’.
Patches@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
What’re you callin her? Babushka?
scottywh@lemmy.world 10 months ago
RaoulDook@lemmy.world 10 months ago
You can firewall it and it won’t be able to reach the Plex servers. External access is not necessary.
spiderkle@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
Just completely offline with home DNS as IP right? Thie still sucks and i think there needs to be more feedback to the dev forum.
Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 10 months ago
External access is necessary. If you block access to your home plex, remote users can’t see it because Plex handles the login for remote users.
Also adding IP addresses into “allow access” so Plex works when your local server can’t reach it’s Plex Inc gives admin access to any IP’s listed.
HawlSera@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Are closets even a thing anymore?
EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 months ago
How else are you supposed to hide from the monster in the movie?
Or, more seriously, largely depends on if you live in a small town or not or if your family is “conservative.” The organization who released the guide of towns for black people to avoid in the US so they wouldn’t get murdered after sunset by racists back in the day released their first ever warning for LGBTQ people saying which states to stay out of this year or the last. Society is more accepting than it used to be, but it is by no means safe.
spiderkle@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
They hugely miscalculated, trust was already at its lowest. In Europe this already breaks several GDPR laws. Not to mention child protection laws.
And it’s not just about pron, that’s just a catchier headline. It could be religious, political or in some countries banned movies that gets people in trouble.
HawlSera@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Yeah I don’t really understand it either