I hope this doesn’t mean they are on the slippery slope of selling user data, thoughts?
At the moment all is fine. I’m just going to ride with it until I have to stop and change to something else.
I’m mostly in the same boat. So far anything I didn’t like could be easily turned off. I unpinned the Plex TV and movies so it never shows up. I don’t mind discover because it means it returns results for things I don’t have, letting me watchlist it so overseerr can request it without me needing to leave Plex.
I have a jellyfin container running in the same docker compose yml with the exact same media folders mounted to it with quicksync passed through to it in addition to Plex, reverse proxy already set up so switching is as easy as opening a different URL or app since it’s already up and running.
You know what would be a killer feature?
Being able to buy movies without DRM crap at full resolution (blu-ray or 4k HDR) at a reasonable price (same or less than physical media) that includes extras. Extra points if everything is already named and in the correct folder layout to just drop it on the server in the right folder. Extra Extra points if Plex manages the download in the background and puts it in the right place when finished, or an incoming folder that awaits approval. Even several hours or more to download it would be fine (just make download resumable).
(yes I know this is exceedingly unlikely to happen, but we can dream)
Sounds like gog for movies. And built into Plex? That’s one of those ideas that makes way too much sense to ever happen
As soon as they pulled this I switched to Jellyfin. No regrets.
Plex is yet another service on the enshitification high road, might aswell switch to Jellyfin now and spare the future trouble if you ask me.
I’m already on my way out of Plex to Jellyfin.
I had a nice run with my lifetime pass, but the road ahead has been very clear the last couple of years of where Plex is headed.
“One of the things we’ve already started to prove in 2023 is that we can absolutely monetize some of that data…in a very privacy-friendly way. There’s no personally identifiable information being used,” Valroy said. “We already proved we could make money on that this year, so, in 2024, we’re putting more wood behind that arrow. And arguably, even though our current business is already growing 30%-40% per year, that could dwarf it in two to three years. That is a really big market opportunity,” he added.
Sounds like they already have, on that note, for me it no longer matters if they are or aren’t as long as they put dev time into features that’ll actually create value for me as well.
That makes me nervous. We keep seeing evidence, again and again, that “anonymized” data is actually pretty easy to de-anonymize if you have enough of it. So I’m really not a fan of companies selling “anonymized” user data unless they transparently specify EXACTLY what data they’re selling.
I’ll stick with Plex for now because it’s so easy for others to use, but the moment I smell smoke, I’m heading for the door. I’ve already got Jellyfin installed and connected to my library, I just haven’t bothered to set up a reverse proxy for remote access yet.