Post AcHhWrBsR55LFNZnCS by encthenet@flyovercountry.social
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(DIR) Post #AcHhWjjGB52E6b8L7g by encthenet@flyovercountry.social
2023-11-27T17:36:00Z
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The recent plex privacy leaks just continues to prove to me that I cannot trust any commercial entity with my data. They shouldn't have been collecting that data in the first place, and they clearly did not get informed consent before collecting and using that data.Yes, I'll continue to use my home grown solution over commercial crap that can't be trusted.
(DIR) Post #AcHhWo79sAWnhsLTvc by encthenet@flyovercountry.social
2023-11-28T19:51:50Z
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Hmm, seems to me that Plex may have violated the Video Privacy Protection Act:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_Privacy_Protection_ActSadly, this won't actually end anyone's career or stop the business practice.
(DIR) Post #AcHhWrBsR55LFNZnCS by encthenet@flyovercountry.social
2023-11-28T19:55:17Z
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Also, it's looking like Plex, when adding this email option, turned marketing emails back on for people who has turned them off:https://forums.plex.tv/t/weekly-review-emails-data-leak/860206/9I've seen this plenty of times, where I've turned off emails, and somehow they managed to get enabled again. Wish companies were required to keep records of these actions, and pay out fines for violations (actually pay them, not just sweep them under the rug w/ the FTC).
(DIR) Post #AcHhWs94syRMCzH4TY by encthenet@flyovercountry.social
2023-11-28T19:58:08Z
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Lol, Plex's sharing is private by default, except when you hit continue to dismiss dialogs, which will default it to friends:https://forums.plex.tv/t/weekly-review-emails-data-leak/860206/28The contortions that people will go through to prove that it was private by default, and it was "informed consent" is just crazy.
(DIR) Post #AcHhWsztiaguqnzFo0 by alexr@mastodon.online
2023-11-28T22:48:13Z
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@encthenet Their article says you can alter these settings from Plex Web, which is clearly not the case for the current FreeBSD version of the server. I had to disable these settings from the iOS app.
(DIR) Post #AcHhWtnAlO6fJd2bbs by encthenet@flyovercountry.social
2023-11-29T00:41:17Z
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@alexr Yeah, there are people on the forums that say it got enabled, and they never saw the splash screens. Likely for "unusual" setups like running server on FreeBSD, they just defaulted it to on for people who didn't ack the screens after a period of time.
(DIR) Post #AcHhWuXbyjFldelgzg by feld@bikeshed.party
2023-11-29T02:19:43.116066Z
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@encthenet @alexr it got enabled for me too running it on FreeBSD / in a jail, never saw any messages about it. Also I couldn't unsubscribe as their email management page was broken when I first noticed this behaviorI don't personally need most Plex features but I share my library with a bunch of friends and family and I've heard Jellyfin's remote streaming/transcode is still garbage comparatively.All I really care about is my library having accurate "watched" data as I often end up watching stuff through Infuse Pro on AppleTV because it supports ALLLL the codecs. This project works for syncing your Plex data to Jellyfin.https://github.com/luigi311/JellyPlex-Watched
(DIR) Post #AcHihX87SdSwAaTPvs by alexr@mastodon.online
2023-11-29T02:27:11Z
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@feld @encthenet I also often use Infuse Pro on my MacBook Pro to get HDR support.I run Tautulli to keep statistics. The stats Plex showed me when I disabled this feature were totally broken and old compared to Tautulli.