disable this plex setting RIGHT NOW

Right now? Wait, I have to install it first.

So each user has to do this? I have family that barely knows how to use a computer, and I have to get them to modify their plex accounts?

Thanks for this. I'd already done the privacy one, but missed the playback data. I've been primarily using Jellyfin for a while, but I run Plex, Emby, and Jellyfin side by side pointed at the same media library. I just bought Emby Premier on Black Friday, and weirdly, at least watching on my Windows PC, I have several weird issues with Emby that I don't have with Jellyfin. On my Nvidia Shield Pro, Emby seems to work fine.

When a company says, "We'll never..." Sure.. for that year or whatever. So many companies says X.. and then they meant Y.. but change it to Z.

This feature has been around for over a year

didn't kmow about this. Thanks for the heads up.

Thanks so much for the video 👍

Does Jellyfin need to use hardware transcoder like Zimaboard? Love your videos! I just bought a DS923+

Such a deceptive company

honestly update to Emby. I paid for Emby premiere and I have never been happier.. the capability of creating accounts that only have access to certain libraries just makes everything so much easier.. It runs on truenas and sonology. I was a Plex user for so long.. But now all I tell people is use Emby Play!

It’s really sad to watch an app/company devolve because it ‘must’ grow.

thanks for this

I'm still getting emails about friends' activity even after changing the settings a while back. Does it have to be set under their account as well?

How would Plex even have your contact list? This is the part I'm missing. NOWHERE in there do I have any contact info other than my own. Is it doing this through the app somehow accessing my contacts?

is Jellifin on smart TVs?

While this sucks, I am so glad you have called it out and shown us this change. I was wondering why I was seeing these emails. That being said, I still love my Plex server and haven't moved to anything else because I love the interface that comes with it.

No i don't want my friends to know my porn preferences lol.

Its bad enough Facebook shows my friends what i like.

I don't have any of those options under profile

Sure glad I'm not a young gay person living with conservative/religious parents where leaking my viewing preferences and history could lead to being kicked out or worse. Maybe my browser should just blast out my internet browsing history to everyone as well?

What do we do if this does not exist in our Plex UI? Maybe they already caught on and decided we are NOT in control of our data. Here's what I have
PRIVACY
Review our for more information on the data that we collect, how it is used, and understand your . You can opt out of sending us certain data using your page.
Then link just takes you to a link letting you know you can opt out.... What the actual

Is this for free or plex pass account? I have free account and Nvidia Shield TV Pro with Plex Server? I go to account and do these things. Mybe i can make firewall rule for my UDM-PRO to not let Nvidia shield TV pro to acess internet? Only to play store to updates and nvidia shield firmware updates and allow acess to plex. In Plex outside acess is disable. I have Private and Friends Only and uncheck those two ticks. Mybe someone know how to setup to acess only to these specific things (Play store, Nvidia updates, Plex) and nothing else? I only acess to Plex in my local network.

Jokes on them. I have no friends or family.

Dude where are the links you are using, how about making our lives easier!

How to Disable Sending playback data to Plex step #2 ... just looks like a webpage, I would have never known there was a dynamic checkbox in there. I'm having trouble connecting to server on iOS app via Jellyfin, I'll have to do more digging

There is a cool Plex community on X Twitter as well.

Really interested in a Plex alternative. But the transcoding accomplished in the server is a must.

Thanks for the tips....I don't think I was too much affected since I don't have friends associated with my account. However, who knows what could happen, so I've set this settings to private. I paid a lifetime pass for Plex, and I really do enjoy the overall catalog system/cross platform interactivity/platform support. The main issues I've had is what kind of current naming conventions I need for getting special features with TV shows, film editions, etc. I'm mainly watching my content on Apple TV 4K, and also like that Infuse syncs with Plex and lets me watch 4K DD+ Atmos material (then I have a NVidia Shield for watching TrueHD Atmos). I'm chalking this as not so bad, but something to be aware of (just as you would privacy settings for Windows).

I think Plex has their sites set on bigger money makers in the steaming industry like Free Ad-Supported Streaming TV and Connected TV advertising. It wouldn't surprise me if a future release of their media hosting platform became free with ads on your own content, or they dropped the paid service completely.

There are people still using plex?! Even after all this that has gone down?

Thanks I would have never known about this if I hadn't watched your video. Great job!

Thanks Rex. Scumbags going bankrupt always do this stuff.

Wow talk about over blown. It was in the update notes and there’s a pop-up on first use asking if you want to use it or not. This guy in the video is an ignorant drama queen!

Thank you for this!

Short of emailing your watched films list to the film distro companies, this is the next dumbest move. Way to push your users to another platform.

Actually pretty easy to find these. But only if you are aware of them, and the need to change them. So - Thanks for that.
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** Profile > Account Settings > Privacy (in left menu) > page that has very little dialogue in it - with 3 links at bottom - "Privacy Policy" - "AdChoices" - "Privacy Preferences" page > Click "Privacy Preferences" > a new dialogue box opens > UNTICK "Send Playback data to Plex" it has a blue background. > Close tab. Done.
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** Profile: "View profile" > "Edit Profile" > Bottom of page... Under "Privacy" / "ACCOUNT VISIBLITY & ACTIVITY SHARING" / "Manage which of your Plex..." CLICK it > Change everything to "Private" other than "Account Visibility" which can only be made "Friends Only" at best: do that anyway > CLICK yellow SAVE button! > Close dialogue box. Done.

Jellyfin sucks

is this for version 4.116.1?

I solved the problem by disabling plex itself. I moved over to Jellyfin which is AWESOME. 👏

I am to the latest and did not see the settings. I am running plex on docker. Did not see those settings.

At this point it's best to just uninstall Plex and move on to something like Jellyfin.

when the friend-feature got active i was informed and could choose to set everything to private. privacy settings are easily accessable under account\privacy. if you click on it you can read that you can opt out from sending some data. the data that is sent is not personalized. advertising consent settings are also easily reached and understanable presented.

i personally dont see that big issue - you can also control what info your friends will get and what emails you will get from them.

I just recently built my first NAS/Homelab running Truenas Scale. One of the primary things I wanted to use it for is a media server. I had decided before even building it that I was going to run Jellyfin. So I installed it, but the Jellyfin Client app for Android TV has some really big shortcomings/flaws that it made the whole experience annoying enough that I had to switch to Plex.

After clicking on "Edit Profile" I only see my image Username and Full Name no other setting like you have.

I can't believe how underestimated Emby is. A lot of Plex users talk about switching to Jellyfin, but in my opinion Emby is the better offering. Jellyfin is great, don't get me wrong, but Emby supports all the major devices which is where Jellyfin falls short for me.

Great information. Thank you.

switched 2 years ago wont go back