Videos from your own server never get ads. The only ads you’ll ever see in Plex are from the various streaming services that Plex aggregates. These streaming services and their ads have nothing to do with Plex expect that Plex indexes them for you.
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Rambler@lemm.ee 6 months agoThanks for the very detailed advice. Definately some interesting things to follow up on. I got the plex pass when I bought the shield but never got it to connect remotely, but due to them putting ads in their films, I’m now thinking to switch to something else.
ElderWendigo@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Videos you host will never get ads, unless they’re baked straight into the video file, (and at that point you need to reconsider where you downloaded them from.) Plex does have a sort of IPTV service that they run, which has ads. But most Plex users tend to ignore that part of the app, because that’s clearly not why they are using the server. Just use it for hosting your own stuff and you can ignore the Live TV/Movies & Shows stuff from Plex entirely.
Rambler@lemm.ee 6 months ago
Absolutely correct. I was referring to videos/films that I’m watching that are hosted by plex. Apologies if I didn’t make that clear. The videos that it hosts for me do not have adverts.