No, we are about where we started.
So porn still shows up in search ?
Edit - oh, it does still show up (eg Angst and Ambition) but this time different stuff. Seems they have cleaned most of the previous stuff though ?
From what I understood, they were scrubbing. They’re taking it seriously.
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I’ll say they are taking it seriously when they grant us the off switch. Until then this is all talk and smoke and mirrors that will just have us all back here again at some point.
Right now it is about Plex saving face.
I haven’t heard a single word of commitment to grant us the ability to control what content appears in our clients other than Managed Users.
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Do you mean apps or other users connecting to your server?
Apps. Discover, Watchlist and Search.
Those are just the beginning too.
My guess is that eventually the Watchlist details page will be what every details page looks like when you view a title. It will allow them to push related ad-support content unto us.
Our home pages will probably have hubs that we cannot control that contain ad-supported content.
It is even possible that we will eventually see ads before each viewing of our own content, similar to Amazon Prime.
None of this is that far fetched when you look at who they hired.
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It’s pretty far fetched. Especially when there are a number of similar rival products that users can switch to. There’d be a substantial and quick exodus if they did anything that impacted on viewing local media.
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I was 631 on voting for this to be removed.
I’d also like to see more testing before releases. Betas are fine, but this situation highlights the need (or that whatever currently exists is insufficient.) Testing isn’t just to satisfy forum users, it benefits the bottom line and mitigates risk Full formal automated regression testing is a must. New test cases must be written, automated, and test results recorded and reviewed as part of new functionality development and before deployment.
No, it isn’t. Plex won’t care about local content admins. We aren’t their money makers as they move to AVOD (ad-supported video).
It won’t happen overnight, but probably over the next few years.
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The general public are used to the approach mentioned now. Essentially streaming services. The days of local managed content only are over.
It is the way (to quote the Mando).
The same thing had been said for the last few years. Everytime they add something it’s the end of the world…
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It’s solved here to my satisfaction. And Plex seems to be still working on improving it.
There always seems to be a certain amount of irate outrage out there just looking for an issue but I’m not interested in that.
No, just the decline of personal managed content.
I’ve seen it drift that way over the decade I’ve used Plex.
It is now speeding up in transition.
Awesome. Not for me - still seeing stuff pop up, albeit much less.
Nothing more to see in here then 
My personal media viewing works exactly the same as it has ever since I started using Plex many years ago. Nothing they have added has impacted on my ability to watch my local content or share it with others.
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This is correct. I knew that when cable television was dying, something would need to take its place. I’ve been a cord cutter for over 18 years now. I’ve watched Netflix and Amazon Prime rise up, but what is replacing them is Tubi and Pluto TV. Why? Because they follow the old ad-support model. It doesn’t require begging money from the users. They just watch and give you their eyes. The advertisers follow those with their big bucks.
Tubi and Pluto are eventually going to face stiff competition since their services offer nothing special. What is “special” is content. Those who produce the content will win as they build out their own AVODs.
This is why all the main content creators are getting into the streaming business. Those businesses will move more and more to AVOD. It’s no big change to them. They’ve been creating content for AVOD for many many years.
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Have seen Plex introduce this in a number of ways over the years but those additions have largely been accepted by the community as ‘extras’ that never really got in the way other than minor annoyances.
Then we have the regular removal of ‘extras’ that were not viewed as core, in some cases replaced with inferior options but with ‘extras’ added.
This latest foray into AVOD was far more aggressive and unfortunately, not well done. Received positive media coverage as well.
I’m really happy for those that are no longer seeing issues with the latest offering, I am. No /s at all.
Putting aside the ongoing issue of adult media recommendations, I ran a brief series of searches on one of my devices for content. The new functions only delivered content successfully 58% of the time. I guess for a beta that is acceptable ?
Mind you, I am on the other side of the world from Plex HQ so maybe it is just a case of playing catch up here
Glad you are happy.
I, and my friends have kids. Access to unrestricted content is not how things worked before. That has GREATLY impacted our ability to protect our kids, and ourselves even, from unwanted content.
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Yes, I don’t get the positive media coverage. I really don’t think they get the core Plex.
There are already PLENTY of other AVOD media services. Why do we need Plex doing the same thing, and why is it so wonderful?
Honestly, Roku and all it Channels does a much better job offering users stream-able content. But, that is just my opinion.
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Oh the company I worked for did the same - promotional campaigns.
We (the company) had a couple of fails with campaigns and they burnt hard (the worst ones involved some of our staff on promotional videos with the press and the company stopped doing them after that)
I can see positives with Plex becoming a content aggregator but this isn’t a good start.
Edit - last two titles that popped up in search have now gone for me. One weird one still in Plex’s own VOD library but outside scope of this issue.
