Plex update raises concerns over potential sharing of porn viewing habits | Be careful what you watch

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• AnonStoleMyPants@sopuli.xyz ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Lmao what the fuck Plex.

  Who the fuck thought it would be a good idea to have this thing be opt out instead of opt in? Well actually, I’m sure they realised that nobody would opt in because nobody fucking wants this garbage. So the only option is to make it opt out, right guys?

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  • protput@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Can I opt out for all the users in my library?

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    • AnonStoleMyPants@sopuli.xyz ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      No idea, sorry.

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• spacecadet@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Bought a lifetime pass from Plex, probably going to switch to jellyfin now

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• lando55@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  That’s a pretty misguided decision, but who is hosting their own porn?

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  • Pregnenolone@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    monke see video, monke put in library

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  • redcalcium@lemmy.institute ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Ever since pornhub nuked their library, people start filling up their homework folder again so they won’t most their favorite homework data.

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  • Zagorath@aussie.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    People put the media they’ve downloaded onto their Plex server. If some people are downloading porn, it makes sense that they’d be putting that on their Plex server too.

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  • queue@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I can see someone using Plex/Jellyfin to host their sex work media, like a “Netflix for my boobs/cock/ass/etc.” since both let you manage who has access and what not.

    That said, it’s probably a bad idea for that, and general porn.

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    • SkyNTP@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      github.com/stashapp/stash

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  • LEDZeppelin@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    P0rnHub

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• Zagorath@aussie.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Here’s a thread from yesterday so people can see the over 200 comments already made on this subject (links in my instance, the OP of that post’s instance, and the host instance):

  • aussie.zone/post/4425782
  • sopuli.xyz/post/6329982
  • lemmy.world/post/8840659

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• tarmac@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Yet another to be thankful for Jellyfin.

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  • KpntAutismus@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    a bit buggy, but i have full control.

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• PixelAlchemist@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The view-state sync feature and all the social stuff is def opt-in though. Of course they made it super easy to do the opt-in, they want to push that feature, but I remember I did have to actively choose both of those things after the update.

  Obviously I don’t really want my “friends” getting weekly emails about what I’m watching, but I don’t know — If I were self-hosting my own porn, maybe I’d take 5 extra seconds to read the screen that says stuff about sharing activity.

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  • TauriWarrior@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Except if you read it the Discover Together feature is opt-out

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    • PixelAlchemist@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I did read it - what I meant is that I think the author of the article was mistaken.

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• kibiz0r@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  That’s fucking hilarious.

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• BigDiction@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  What’s the identifier referenced in the IMDB database? Some kind of unique content id?

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  • CalicoJack@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Exactly. IMDB assigns an identifier to each piece of content, and Plex (or Jellyfin/Emby/etc) use that to pull metadata.

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• Ruthalas@infosec.pub ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Anyone concerned about this should look into Stashbox.

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• Lifecoach5000@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’m just now getting acquainted with Plex myself. I have no desire to open it up to beyond my local network nor other users and I’m guessing that’s a good decision based on these kind of feature rollouts I’m hearing about.

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