Add inserted while watching movie streamed from private LAN Server

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I am a long time Plex user but have never -ever- seen an advertisement inserted, especially 3 ads in a row which interrupt a movie. I looked here in the forum but didn’t see anything that felt relevant. I’m a bit surprised. Part of the reason I began using Plex was to get away from broadcast TV and cable advertisements. I do not ever want to see an advertisement. If I could shut this down everywhere in my life I would.

So, I’m extremely sad about Plex now. I want to learn more about why Plex does this and if there is any way that I can stop this from happening. There’s nothing in Plex Premium that mentions that paying eliminates advertisements.

Please help me to understand what is happening. I don’t want to believe that Plex is now cutting in advertisements. If it does this now and cannot be stopped, I will absolutely delete Plex in a heartbeat.

I’m so sad. I’m really hoping this is some kind of bug related to a service that I’m not using.

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You were watching one of the VOD movies. It may be a movie you ALSO have in your library, but you were watching it from the “Plex Movies & TV” section. This entire section is add supported content from Warner Brothers and soon to be a few others. You can disable this in your account settings, but you will not have access to those movies unless they are also movies you have in your library.

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Thank you for the quick answer. That may be possible. I was watching on iOS and might have accidentally navigated here. I definitely own this content locally and didn’t intend to touch anything with ads.

Is there a way to disable VOD services so that I never accidentally play one?

I can’t tell you how relieved I am to learn about what I did… Thank you!

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