For Plex accounts created before March 20, 2025, we require your consent to sell your personal data as described in our Privacy Policy. You can always adjust your share/sell preferences <here>.
so whats the issue? just declining doesn’t work?
Plex now will SELL your personal data
Submitted 2 months ago by Sunny@slrpnk.net to selfhosted@lemmy.world
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MangioneDontMiss@lemm.ee 1 month ago
Olgratin_Magmatoe@slrpnk.net 2 months ago
Can’t sell my data if I’ve never given them any
secretlyaddictedtolinux@lemmy.world 2 months ago
What is Plex?
thann@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Its like jellyfin but sells your data
secretlyaddictedtolinux@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Why would anyone want that?
lagoon8622@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
A software you put on your NAS to stream media
HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Can someone explain to me why you need anything more than directories filled with files to view content?
I’m struggling to understand why anybody would need or want something like Plex.
I want to watch a movie. I open explorer, go to the folder movies, select the movie, and double click the icon.
The end.
catloaf@lemm.ee 2 months ago
How do I do that with my TV?
Willdrick@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Jellyfin user here, glad I dodged the bullet when I had to pick between it and plex.
Tl;dr you want something like plex to:
- manage your media files for you
- get metadata for extra features (eg. show me similar movies, select an actor from the cast and see all your media with that actor, etc)
- track your watch progress
- play on several devices (tv, mobile, pcs consoles)
- transcode media to a compatible format for your client device
- share your media library with your family
- get notified of related media being released (new season of a show or new movie onba series)
And the biggest one for me
- tidy up ripped dvd/br movie collection, download missing CC or subtitles
- create a self-hosted alternative to shitty subscription services
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Because that’s pretty inconvenient?
I need something like
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ability to watch from any device
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transcoding
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watch history and progress save
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octopus_ink@slrpnk.net 1 month ago
You are imagining how to use a computer filled with video files.
Now imagine having your own personal netflix available on a variety of devices, using just that one computer full of video files.
HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
I don’t have the addiction or condition that makes that compelling to me.
I can’t figure out why or how that is a need people have.
cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
someone should make a jellyfish plugin that brings up a consent screen that says you consent to give yourself over to eevee and naruto.
tehn00bi@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Do people actually watch whatever plex streams? The only reason I use plex is to rewatch Star Trek for the 18th time.
Ushmel@lemmy.world 1 month ago
"Updated “Who does Plex share or sell Personal Data with?” to include the Plex activity that you share based on your account visibility and activity settings as well as sharing/sale of certain Personal Data to third parties.
Nothing changes for Plex Accounts created before March 20, 2025 unless you change your preferences here. If you are a new user and created an account after March 20, 2025, you can update your preferences here. The types of data that we may share has not changed We do not and will not collect information about content or titles in your personal media library or what you’ve played. Personal media users: we do NOT, and will not, share or sell any information about the content and titles on or your use of a personal media server. Consent is required by all Plex Accounts created before March 20, 2025 for the sale of their data."
Seems like it’s just for their other services, which I already assumed they were tracking and selling view counts.
sj_zero 1 month ago
Speedrunning destroying your platform.
bitjunkie@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Is Kodi still a thing? Been a while since I had a media server but I have another one in the works because fuck streaming services
mrvictory1@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Kodi exists however it’s a client only, it is not made to host content. You are looking for jellyfin
ftbd@feddit.org 1 month ago
+1 for Jellyfin!
lucullus@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
Eh, I’m pretty sure it is. Haven’t had Kodi running for a while, but I used it on a Raspberry Pi with an USB HDD with my content long before I had Jellyfin. Though it cannot stream the content over network, just display it on the machines video output (which is what media PCs do)
bitjunkie@lemmy.world 1 month ago
That was what I was leaning towards. Do you (or does anyone) happen to know if it is easy to get going on Bazzite? And if so, does it play nice with a Steam controller?
sugarfoot00@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
One of the security upsides to plex is that any number of people can log in with the same credential.
That means that while Plex can harvest information- what account, what’s being watched, IP address, device and player identifier- It doesn’t know who to attach that information to. So you can get dozens or maybe hundreds of users polluting the same account with watch information. Less useful information to be sure.
mrodri89@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Nothing is ever truly free in this world. They gotta pay their bills too.
theangryseal@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Yeah, and there are decent ways to do that, which many successful companies and individuals manage to pull off every day.
I have no horse in this race because I don’t use any of this stuff, but I despise the direction everything is going.
Human parasites are never happy with being well fed it seems. They aren’t happy unless they gorge until they get fat and explode, or they’re so greedy they end up killing their host.
mrodri89@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
I hear ya. Thats why i dont use them either. Books are the better entertainment.
Joelk111@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Sure, that’s why I paid for Plex Pass. Plex isn’t free.
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 1 month ago
why you gotta bring reason and logic to this jellyfin orgy?
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 2 months ago
They prominently point this change out and kind of force you to choose whether you opt in or out. There is a single checkbox to opt out of all. But yes, it’s a bad direction. Just maybe not the apocalypse implied by some.
NarrativeBear@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Can a link be provided to this consent page?
Sunny@slrpnk.net 2 months ago
You wil have to clear your cache I think.
FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 1 month ago
And you can say no. Where’s the problem?
Also “personal data” is a bit of a stretch.
abdominable@lemm.ee 1 month ago
On no, an opt out, such a tragedy.
james@lemmy.jamesj999.co.uk 2 months ago
Why does nobody ever mention Emby? To me, it’s everything Plex used to be before it got enshittified!
Getting6409@lemm.ee 2 months ago
I think Emby failed to get a lot of momentum due to having hardware acceleration behind a paywall, and then having jellyfin out there offering it for free. When I was first getting away from plex, emby was my first stop, and then I moved over to jellyfin shortly after because of the hardware acceleration situation.
james@lemmy.jamesj999.co.uk 1 month ago
Yeah that’s definitely true. I gladly pay for Emby and thing it’s worth every penny for how I use it. Jellyfin has got to be the best free+open one for sure.
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Isn’t it proprietary?
james@lemmy.jamesj999.co.uk 1 month ago
It is, but also incredibly quick, easy to use etc.
Everything Plex used to be in the good old days imo!
octopus_ink@slrpnk.net 1 month ago
Jellyfin exists because Emby was only open source until it wasn’t convenient. Some of their own devs pointed out they were violating the license, and their response was… non-ideal.
So Jellyfin was forked with the last fully open-source Emby code.
At least that’s my recollection several years down the line.
I decided then that no amount of headache from Jellyfin (and let me say that I was an EARLY jellyfin adopter AND former Plex user) would be enough to get me to use Emby. (Because things like that are important to me, though I realize they aren’t important to everyone.)
And reading this thread I’m apparently a super-genius because I have my Jellyfin behind a reverse proxy and serve it to my elderly parents with a simple login and an app they were able to install, and never found it to be a headache. (Which, if I’d read this thread only, I’d conclude was just not possible without voodoo magic)
No headaches along the way, and whereas Plex had already begun the march to enshittification when I left, Jellyfin has done nothing but steadily get better.
Anyhow, longer answer than intended, but I’d go back to Plex before I’d go to Emby, just on principle.