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No, the question was rhetorical.
I was merely providing context for the current situation.
I have NFI about legal considerations other than what most of the general public would consider.
What has happened here isn’t defendable in any way and clearly, based on the link I posted with update from the Plex team, a solution is still coming.
Oh yeah, and it’s confirmed that Discover will contractually be staying.
Edit: it will have an option to opt out.
That solidifies what was pretty much the plan for Plex’s future in that article.
It is laughable that Plex are in part (if not entirely) blaming a users local content for the R rated material - well, that is how I read it.
So Plex uses everyones local data for their own usage/database. I thought they said they didn’t do that ?
I really hope I misunderstood that bit. I think I need to go have a shower after reading the update from Plex.
I don’t understand it myself. Is it because I may be friends with another Plex user that has shared a library with me that can cause this? Im definitely curious? But to me, this is suspiciously dangerous and wasn’t active nor problematic at all prior to these new features being launched. And they even F’n admit that this was a rushed and sloppy attempt to reach a firm deadline, not fully taking inconsideration of their consequences.
x-rated
nope every single plex server in existence is used to generate this index. i have 0 x-rated content. have access to 0 x-rated content via plex.
Don’t forget NOT RATED (NR)
fair enough. point is the junk that showed up in my screenshot above i have 0 access to. some user somewhere is contributing to the cache. that is the issue. that is very bad practice. plex should be controlling the cache they pull from for these hubs not users. they are asking for foul play.
Classification does not exist where I live.
Stop twisting my words. “I said a whole lot of Plex users” not “more users than not”. There’s a big difference. The rest of the argument is therefore null.
Also, you will never be able to play aggregate content from all those apps in one place. The most it will ever do is launch the other app and then search for it again. Providing you don’t have a Roku. Which cripples this functionality the way you half expect it to work.
Actually, there are two types of data here:
- The content rating called “Not Rated” or NR. There is actually data populated in the rating field called “NR”.
- Unrated content where there is NO data in the rating field.
Different systems treat those two things differently.
didn’t twist your words these are mine.
Youtube TV does this. so this statement is incorrect.
Well, correct but for the case in which I had posted my example yesterday, the film in question had NR in reference to # 1.
Ironically this film had in its description that it was not a porno but the film artwork cover looked suspicious.
Youtube is also part of a company built on profiting from gathering user data.
and plex is not?
also irrelevant. youtube has clearly negotiated this functionality with content providers. and this functionality was in dispute with roku in their last negotiations. this is clearly very lucrative business.
Ermagerd, who hurt you people?
- This topic has been marked as solved by the user who created it.
- Plex has participated in this thread admitting that mistakes were made.
- Plex has made changes and is making further changes to address the mistakes which were made.
We get it, you don’t trust Plex. Fine, you’ve made your point. Loudly. And repeatedly. And Loudly and repeatedly again. There have been precisely 47 users in this thread, counting myself. You’ve all made your point several times over. Forty-seven users. This has become an echo chamber for you all to work yourselves into a frenzy.
Step back and take a breath.
@Atomatth has explicitly acknowledged that this issue has not been/is not being ignored. They’ve specifically asked for further examples of inappropriate content being returned from the streaming services integration. There’s not been a single response since acknowledging this except for one user asking for further definition of “questionable content.”
There are other issues being conflated with the one originally reported which should not be. The primary being that many of you want more control of what “your users” are allowed to view in general, whether or not it comes from your own server’s or Plex’s. This ownership you feel for these users is a fallacy; they are Plex’s users. You introduced them to the platform to be sure; but when they signed up for an account they become Plex users, not ReplacingNetflix users. You have no, and should have no, control over what they can view on your system. Obviously, your Plex Home managed users are an exception to this.
You cannot assert any ownership of, or control over, users with whom you share your server. Full stop. You can control what you share with them, but that is it. They have a Plex account of their own. They are not your user. They decide how they consume Plex’s content. There have been many threads about this and the topic has been beaten to death. Get over it.
All that said, the roll out of this specific feature-set could have and should have been handled much better. There is a specific account-level toggle (Experimental Features) which could have been used to allow folks to opt-in to the beta. As in, the feature should only have been available to those which had this feature enabled. I do not understand why that wasn’t used as a gatekeeper here. Particularly considering it was not ready for prime-time.
As a parting shot, I truly wish that folks could learn to assume the best in people again. The assumptions and opinions being presented as fact in this thread are truly mind boggling. The “insert nationality here” judge scores you a 10 on these mental gymnastics.
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yeah this spiraled out of control. i just wanted the recommendations gone. that has been solved.
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Preach!
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It’s only relevant because you and others are nitpicking Plex on this issue to the nth degree.
