kingofras
@kingofras@lemmy.world
- Comment on Plex now will SELL your personal data 5 days ago:
Thanks OP, appreciate it.
I’m not disagreeing with any of your other statements. The enshitification is real. However, let’s not put them in the Adobe camp just because they are selling ad metrics and open about it. That’s actually transparent and still only applies to people watching content with ads in it.
The overall Lifetime Plexpass user is completely not affected by this, so the entire first reaction to your post that it’s time to ditch Plex for some other platform is not really justified.
People who are using Plex for just selfhosting without using their free online streaming stuff are not affected by this at all.
But eventually yes, I’m sure capitalism will also kill Plex. But possibly our planet and entire civilisation before that.
- Comment on Plex now will SELL your personal data 5 days ago:
OP is claiming Plex will now SELL your personal data.
Omitting that the user must provide consent, not like Firefox or Adobe just updates T&C and forces user agreement. OP’s title is upvote seeking, cherry picking to quote certain text which makes it seem like they leave the user no choice, and leaving out the part of the text that stipulates the user does have to consent prior to the sale of information.
Moreover, the sale of data seems to be in order to facilitate the ads they show in their free movie and tv content, and even then is still opt in. The ads aren’t, but the data sale isn’t.
For posterity the full OP at the time of this post
Plex now will SELL your personal data
Text:
I consent to Plex to: (i) sell certain personal information (hashed emails, advertising identifiers) to third-parties for advertising and marketing purposes; and (ii) store and/or access certain personal information (advertising identifiers, IP address, content being watched) on my device(s) and share that information with Plex’s advertising partners. This data is used to deliver personalised ads and content, ad and content measurement, audience insights and product development. Your consent applies to all devices on which you have Plex installed. You can withdraw your consent at any time in Account Settings or using this page.
Soure: www.plex.tv/vendors/ (Might have to clear cache)
Can also read about the changes here: www.plex.tv/about/privacy-legal/
- Comment on Plex now will SELL your personal data 5 days ago:
OP is posting misleading hyperbole
This from the Plex site, emphasis mine.
Consent
We take your privacy seriously. If you’d like more details on how we collect, use, and transfer your information, please review our Privacy Policy. Plex is able to provide free-to-watch movies, shows, and live TV by displaying a modest number of ads before and during playback. While it is not possible to opt-out of these ads, you do not have to consent to the selling and sharing of certain information.
We’re never going to get anywhere if people on these communities can’t act in good faith and share correct and information - not sensation. Change the OP or mods delete this misinformation.
- Comment on Trump officials reportedly consider TV gameshow with US citizenship as prize 2 weeks ago:
Last 2 finalists have to spend 2 months getting emotionally attached to a dog after which they are told to kill the dog by Kristi. First to pull the trigger wins citizenship to join the rest of the psychopathic country.
- Comment on I thought my shirt made it very clear! 2 weeks ago:
Next level: be a black guy wearing a shirt that says “do not shoot this guy”
Just kidding don’t try this at home
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Plot twist he’s under cover FBI honeytrapping successors for Marjorie and Lauren
- Comment on Skype was shut down for good today 4 weeks ago:
Can I guess that the American amoral capitalist company won’t have transferred my Skype credit?
- Comment on Judge Rules Apple Senior Executive Lied Under Oath, Makes Criminal Contempt Referral 4 weeks ago:
Can’t innovate anymore my ass
- Comment on Voters, ‘left media’ to blame for Coalition wipeout: Rinehart 4 weeks ago:
Do we on Lemmy need to amplify either this corrosive billionaire or the shaking my head newspaper?
- Comment on Judge Rules Apple Senior Executive Lied Under Oath, Makes Criminal Contempt Referral 4 weeks ago:
Oh come on. He said he barely remembered who Epstein was!
- Comment on Judge Rules Apple Senior Executive Lied Under Oath, Makes Criminal Contempt Referral 4 weeks ago:
And his skin colour doesn’t help either. Word on the street is she may be a tiny bit racist.
- Comment on Judge Rules Apple Senior Executive Lied Under Oath, Makes Criminal Contempt Referral 4 weeks ago:
I don’t think it can be overstated how far Apple and Tim are straying from their core values with this and the intelligence failures.
It’s bad enough Tim really only made the Watch in his nearly 15y as CEO. His recent capitulation to the Regime and now this, it’s time to go buddy.
You’re good at feeding shareholders and doing the stock buyback thing, but that’s not really what apple is. All of what apple is and you tried to mimic failed: the car, the ski goggles, the power mat and most recently “intelligence”.
These are the signs a company has peaked and is just trying to ride the past successes.
Thanks to Musk and Trump he of course looks like a half decent business leader, but when all the veils of secrecy are lifted and the privacy promises turn out to be empty, there isn’t much left.
- Comment on After Canada, Australia now too boots their conservative leader to the curb 4 weeks ago:
Thanks for copying my OP text too mate (:
- Comment on UN Experts Say US’s Deportation of Hundreds of Men to El Salvador Violates International Law 4 weeks ago:
Not anymore. They are pushing for a law that will make it legal for the regime to disappear US citizens. And almost nobody is talking about it
- Comment on Fucking wankers 5 weeks ago:
Anyone know a good online store that sells cheap bleach?
- Comment on Cisco, a Major Contributor to Israel's Military Technology, Fired a Pro-Palestine Employee 1 month ago:
Man, these zionist sympathisers really all coming out of the woodwork all because some silly book is making them believe this is the end times. Worse than the MAGA cult.
- Comment on This is real 1 month ago:
Only fighting when you’re certain of victory is actually the smart way of doing combat. Nothing to do with fascists or cowards.
I think what you mean is that they will only pick on the weak and indefensible. That’s what’s going on. This isn’t even a fight, they are snapping them off the street without warning. And it isn’t a victory either, as they are fast tracking mass outrage.
We’re being played, as is always the case with Trump. He’s dictating the things we get outraged by, day by day. He wants the outrage, because he needs the pretext for Martial Law. That’s the fight he wants, and the victory they seek: total consolidation of power, so he can crown himself king.
Hitler too, only had a vocal minority before he rose to power.
- Comment on This is real 1 month ago:
I wouldn’t say there is no secret agenda. It’s clear the administration is not in the loop of what the secret agenda is. Their blatant anti-everything-non-white and overall incompetence and ignorance is enough right now to keep the divide and conquer going.
- Comment on This is real 1 month ago:
Based on the upvote ratio of this very legitimate question, a majority of USA-landers who want to live in a country with a stupid second amendment, are actually too chicken to use the provisions it provides.
- Comment on 2 Instances are being used for coordinated vote manipulation, and should be defederated. chinese.lol lemmy.doesnotexist.club 1 month ago:
Warned about this 11 days ago. lemmy.world/post/27449126
This is still a weakness of the current federation model imo
- Comment on Russian strategic bomber crashes in Siberia, one person dead, governor says 1 month ago:
I suppose it strategically bombed.
- Comment on Dutton refuses to rule out ABC cuts and repeatedly declines meeting with chair Kim Williams, sources say 1 month ago:
Well at least where I am, the Libs have covertly run independents to confuse the playing field and offer a moderate right candidate or something. Independents isn’t a guarantee for success, there is at least a 1% chance you’ll get someone who’s only slightly better than a party line drone.
And there’s also the Greens.
- Comment on Dutton refuses to rule out ABC cuts and repeatedly declines meeting with chair Kim Williams, sources say 1 month ago:
Albanese isn’t perfect, and if you can vote independent, do so, but Dutton just isn’t a good person. That’s all that matters. Anyone who’s ever met him and couldn’t offer him money or media attention he just shrugs off and walks past. Don’t vote for empty souls.
- Comment on Greenlandic lawmakers form broad coalition to resist US pressure on the eve of JD, Usha Vance visit 2 months ago:
Update the Vances cancelled the trip. Go Greenland!
- Comment on Downvote brigading via third instance hypothetical 2 months ago:
I’m the same, I don’t care about the karma aspect, I do care when it is strategically used by hidden interests to keep certain content ranked lower and push content they like up.
- Comment on How is content like this banned on .ml for being "political"? 2 months ago:
I think it’s clear that the answer to that is not enough, so why don’t you point me towards the nearest library with a Lemmy history section?
- Submitted 2 months ago to fediverse@lemmy.world | 3 comments
- Comment on How is content like this banned on .ml for being "political"? 2 months ago:
Ty. That stuff should be available in mobile clients too. It could definitely be better visually represented and contain a reason and a defederated since date or more.
Also an explanation that addresses my other example about downvote brigading a tertiary instance.
- Comment on How is content like this banned on .ml for being "political"? 2 months ago:
Thx. I saw the rule. @ mods I’m fine if you want to remove this.
I think federation needs to be better explained possibly here either with a sticky or sidebar. And a diagram of who we are federated with and not that’s live updated would be helpful too.
Thanks for all the work you guys do
- Comment on How is content like this banned on .ml for being "political"? 2 months ago:
Ok thanks. I’m a little confused by what that means for voting. Is it possible that anti authoritarian posts or comments still get downvote- brigaded by an instance that is technically defederated from the instance of the OP?
So let’s say instance A and B are defederated from each other, but both are with instance C. User from A posts something on C and every B user still gets to downvote everything to oblivion right?
So .ml is effectively r/TheDonald and we can’t do much against brigading?