Starting now, you can your Google/Facebook account instead of a Plex password to make it easier for you to sign in. It will also make it easier for your friends to start using Plex without creating an account.
Use your Google or Facebook account with Plex
Available now on web, iPhone, iPad, Android mobile, Plex Media Player, and any Plex app that requires a 4-character PIN code.
When opening a Plex app for the first time (or after you’ve signed out), you’ll be given three choices for signing in.
• New Plex users: Using Google or Facebook, start using Plex in just 2 taps. No need to create an account or set a password.
• Existing Plex users: Sign in faster by adding Google and/or Facebook login to your account. To get started, visit the Linked Accounts section of the Account page or just try to sign in with Google or Facebook and verify your existing Plex password. From then on, you’ll be able to sign in without entering your password.
Not interested in Google or Facebook login? Don’t worry.
• Google and Facebook login are optional features. If you don’t want to use it, you’ll never have to. Your account security has not been affected, either; to enable Google or Facebook login for an existing account, we require users to enter their Plex password on first usage.
• When signing in, Plex only requests the minimum permissions and information from Google and Facebook. We don’t ask for access to your life story, can’t read your email, and can’t spam your friends.
Questions about security, passwords, compatibility, and more?
So we have complained bitterly that your new data slurping Feckbook and Gobbler login pages are an insult and you have now decided to remove them because you don’t like it ?
You descend lower and lower into the mire.
“Google and Facebook login are optional features”
No they bloody well aren’t. Those login icons are trackers - it’s in the javascript. You know it and so do we. So even if we DON’T use them Plex, Feckbook and Gobble are STILL tracking us.
That is disgusting.
Please put a web page there on how to COMPLETELY disable and remove all traces of Feckbook and Gobble from login pages AND mobile apps as well.
I shall screen shot all comments from now on. Just so I can make sure I don’t miss anything
It certainly is. Completer censorship. Disgraceful. Disgusting. And a pile more adjectives too.
The logins you can’t disable very easily at all as far as I can see (I am no expert here). It is buried deep inside, possibly in the vendors.js code (if you grep through for feckbook and gobble) and probably also in some curious hex coded CSS that probably autoloads images I think from FB and G (though possibly served via Plex itself)
If you try and block or disable the JS you cannot login at all. I did wonder if nothing else you could add some stuff to DNS to blackhole any requests to G & FB, but that is on a spiral to nowhere. It also won’t get round having the code in EVERY mobile app which you will not be able to disable.
And as you know, these days to get round ad blockers, Feckbook and Gobble use much more sophisticated ways to track you. But track you they will. And Plex will be a beneficiary of that somewhere for sure.
I haven’t had the time to have a serious search, and quite frankly they aren’t going to change, so my time and money will be better spent moving to Emby as soon as I get back from my business trip.
