Fake reviews on Play Store by Plex staff

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Submitted ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨Sunny@slrpnk.net⁩ to ⁨selfhosted@lemmy.world⁩

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In todays episode of “Plex enshittifies” Plex employee breaks ToS.

Source: forums.plex.tv/t/…/917736

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chamgireum@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Today i finalized my switch over to Jellyfin. I was a lifetime member but i’m tired of letting them scrape my data.

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tetris11@lemmy.ml ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I’m not a fan of Plex and switched to Jellyfin very early on, but I’m a bit confused by the outrage here. He used his real name to report on a UX he built. I see FOSS developers do this all the time, and it seems pretty innocuous.

I can imagine if he generated thousands of anonymous accounts and did the same it’d be very bad, but an author commenting on his own work using his full real name doesn’t seem like a conspiracy plot

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- possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  It isn’t terrible but it isn’t great
  
  It would’ve been better if he gave a disclaimer
  
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MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Is it fake or just a review by an employee that uses plex?

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- cygnus@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Yeah, I`m all for roasting Plex but nothing about that review is inappropriate or prima facie untruthful.
  
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  - Couldbealeotard@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    It’s inappropriate because you’re not allowed to review your own companies software, let alone do so without declaring as such.
    
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  - FlexibleToast@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    The update makes the download feature objectively worse. So, that was a stretch to praise both.
    
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ToadOfHypnosis@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Jellyfin works fine. No point paying for Plex.

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- AtariDump@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Just ignore the security problems with remote streaming.
  
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  - ToadOfHypnosis@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    It lives on an isolated VLAN with traffic routed through a VPN service on a dedicated NAS for movies. If someone gets into it, they’ll get no personal info but my movies.
    
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LodeMike@lemmy.today ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
“Reviews” but there’s only one.

This is probably some employee who genuinely likes the U.I.

An actual company-sponsored campaign would NOT use names from actual employees.

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- pivot_root@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Corporations drill it deep into your head that you do not positively promote your own products or negatively review competitor products without both making it clear that you (1) work for $Corp; and (2) are sharing your own, personal opinion.
  
  Giving the benefit of the doubt to Plex, they suck at training employees about social media policies.
  
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  - Pilon23@feddit.dk ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    
    Corporations drill it deep into your head that _you do not positively promote your own products or negatively review competitor products
    
    This isn’t a general or global thing. I have yet to be told above in any place I’ve worked, and one place even asked people to write fake reviews on Trustpilot/job sites
    
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  - pressanykeynow@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Are we even sure it’s the same person?
    
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  - LodeMike@lemmy.today ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    “Plex respects their employees autonomy” wow really??
    
    Mobile app reviews are worthless anyway.
    
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Know_not_Scotty_does@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I have been really happy with hosting my stuff via Emby even with my friend’s library on Plex. I have found the media recognition and identification system in Emby to be much better/easier to use.

While the music player in Emby is nowhere near as good as plexamp. I mostly store a local copy of my music on my phone anyways so it is not really an issue. I am going to start playing with navidrome when I get time but a one directional sync with syncthing fromy server to my phone would also work for my needs.

The Emby app on android tv is decent but not flashy and does not have streaming content by default, it is fully functional as a media player for library files.

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NOT_RICK@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
This was a nice reminder to leave some bad reviews on the App Store

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hugh@slrpnk.net ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Never underestimate the sycophantic idiocy of individual tech workers. One developer does not make a corporate policy.

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Xirup@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Is the user from Playstore the real Rui Lebre? I mean, I can create on any platform users with real people names, but how can people know that it is the real person that is creating the comment, not just an imposter?

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- Sunny@slrpnk.net ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Don’t know for sure ofc, but the co-founder has commented in the thread without addressing the issue. They’ve also closed the thread without addressing all together which also seems weird. Surely if it wasn’t him they would have said so?
  
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Sunny@slrpnk.net ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Sharing this post form r/selfhosted which also describes the recent plex situation lately, worth a read. Image

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- LodeMike@lemmy.today ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Yet again Plex is an amazing example of how people become more angry because they give things away for free.
  
  If everything required a Plex pass less people would be angry.
  
  Just use want you want.
  
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  - Couldbealeotard@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    A lot of the angst about the server requirements for Plex pass really have to stretch the truth to become a victim. It only affects you if you were using it for free, in which case 🤷, it was free, it’s hard to feel bad about it.
    
    The only thing I’m disappointed in is the free mobile streaming comes at the same time they released the new broken app. When they get around to fixing the app I’ll be able to tell my friends they can now use the app. The server owner paying once is much better than every person paying for the app.
    
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  - possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    I personally don’t see a reason to use Plex over Jellyfin. With all the money Jellyfin made from donations apparently some people agree.
    
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- LazerDickMcCheese@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  What do ya know, yet another day of being happy I never invested in Plex
  
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Sunny@slrpnk.net ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Leaving this completely unrelated link to a better alternative here: jellyfin.org

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- Cocodapuf@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  It’s plain deceitful to say jellyfin is simply better. It’s simply less capable and less supported. I don’t know if you’re trying to deceive others or just yourself.
  
  Here’s the difference: With Plex it’s trivial to invite other people to watch content from your server, they can view it on just about any device they have and it doesn’t take any complicated networking setup to achieve. Likewise, just as you share your server, you can view content from other people’s servers through the same interface. This is not a small feature it’s the primary feature of Plex, it’s what sets it apart from xbmc or any media center software.
  
  I am totally on board with OSS and I would absolutely use jellyfin in a second if it could do the things that Plex does. But it can’t.
  
  As a side note, this new interface for Plex on mobile is absolute shit, a big step backwards. If I had my way I’d still be using the Plex app from 2016.
  
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  - Auli@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    No it’s not they have to create a Plex account if putting a URL in a window is to technical then creating an account is. Also jfa-go has made inviting so easy.
    
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- gradual@lemmings.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  hydrahd.sh
  
  Use free streaming sites.
  
  Anything that you want to ‘collect’ can be stored on an external hard drive and taken with you where you need to go.
  
  Don’t overcomplicate things just to fit in with losers on the internet.
  
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- Hawk@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  “Better”
  
  Maybe if they’d fix their glaring security issues
  
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  - MaggiWuerze@feddit.org ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Or their convoluted settings. When there’s a github project that does the HW encoding settings for you, you know it’s intuitive…
    
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- MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Jellyfin really needs to work on security and server discovery.
  
  As it is right now you have to manually input the server URL unless it’s on the same physical network, discovery won’t even work with broadcasts across VLANs, or over the internet.
  
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  - Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    It doesn’t even work right on the same net sometimes.
    
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  - possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    I think the better answer would be to not expose Jellyfin to the internet.
    
    Although it would be cool if it integrated with something like p2panda or libp2p
    
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- ccunning@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Am I correct that there is no first party Jellyfin app for AppleTV?
  
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  - haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    If you use plex and jellyfin anyway, i suggest checking raspberry pi and kodi (libre elec) as an alternative. The pi4 is fine for hd at least, some use it for 4k but i have no exp with that. It works well and helps you get off the apple ecosphere.
    
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  - Lyra_Lycan@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    No but there is an Emby app for every device.
    
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  - stephaaaaan@feddit.org ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    There is Jellyfin, Swiftfin, and Infuse - the latter being 3rd party, but its my favourite so far in terms of stability :)
    
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  - macstainless@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Correct and what I’ve seen from Jellyfin / Emby are poor looking at best. While I could cobble together a system that works for me, there’s no way anyone I share with would put up with it. Plex is PLEX for a reason.
    
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  - mosiacmango@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    There is not, but Infuse is what the Jellyfin project offically recommends.
    
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  - WaterSword@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Yes. But there is a different option. There’s a list of clients on the website.
    
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