I sometimes use my Apple devices to view my PLEX files held on my private server. Today when I start a movie I own, as a Lifetime Plex Pass holder, I have to wait thru an advertisement by whatever movie company has a new movie coming out. I smell an Apple involvement as usual. Am I to assume that they are requiring PLEX to allow this to demand all are to bow to the great Apple. An explanation or better an ANNOUNCEMENT from Plex would be nice.
Any chance you have cinema trailers enabled?
On Android mobile it is Settings → Experience → Cinema trailers to play before movies.
This is not something Plex has done. I also do not see this on my iPad. Are you sure you were playing content form your server?
You may have it, but if you accidentally selected the “Movies & TV on Plex” version of the movie, you also get ads during play. It’s a common mistake people make on here.
Plex does NOT play ads before your own content (YOU might, if you enabled cinema trailers, as @FordGuy61 said). I am 100% confident in the lack of ads. If you don’t use the free content, you can disable that in Settings > Online Media Sources.
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What absolute nonsense.
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It’s designed to “accidently” happen and this is the result @Divideby0
What is automatically pinned when you use a new device or share your server with someone? Plex content
What isn’t automatically pinned? Your content
Even in the search bar, If you search for a movie you have. One result shows that’s yours but 30 movies show up from Plex on demand. Most of which don’t have a title that’s anywhere close to what you’re looking for. The filter works so specifically for my content but not for theirs?
By the way, that’s with Discover more ways to watch, Live TV, and Plex Movies & Shows unpinned
You can say it’s nonsense Hitsville, but you ARE getting advertisements inside your own Plex server just not in the way @Rix001 was accusing them of.
This quote comes to mind
“Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they aren’t after you”
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They do need to consolidate all the controls for this new “Discover” and “Watchlist” and “More Ways to Watch” features that all came out at once and are linked together in all our minds. But I think it was more of a culmination of one change that enabled all these features to be viable at once, so they all came out at once.
The short of it all is the “More Ways to Watch” feature in your search can be disabled. At least in web, once you start a search there is a small double line on the right side of the search bar that appears. Click that, and you configure WHICH sources your search bar is able to search for. Uncheck the “More Ways to Watch” option (that I see is labeled under the Discover (Beta) label) and you will no longer get results for anything in Movies & TV on Plex, nor will you get info pages for things remotely related to your search term.
It looks like they wanted the ability to search for something in their large movie/show metadata database and include it in the search bar. But the new button in the search bar is not obvious (I only found out about it from someone else on this forum), and when you disable as much of Discover as you can where it makes sense to, this search function still shows up.
That box stops the More Ways to Watch but not the Free On Demand content which is what I think most users are seeing the commercials in.
This is what I get when I search for a movie I have.
They figured out how to put “show more” at the bottom of that box but not “show less” lol
I know about this and I know to avoid it, I’ve just seen too many posts around here like Rix001 mad that there’s commercials in their personally owned media and this is just one of the reasons.
Anybody with any common sense can see how easy it is for people to get confused.
Now with more ways to watch how many sources for the same show pop up? How many people have thought they had to pay for a show off their sons server and went ahead and bought a movie from some other source? I bet it’s not zero
Some people like it and that’s great for THEM
They should have the freedom to search or watch all of that, and other people should have the freedom to disable it
It honestly just feels like there’s some slight of hand trickery going on and I don’t think paying customers like the feeling of being manipulated
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https://app.plex.tv/desktop/#!/settings/account - Online Media Sources - Movies & TV
Never thought it was PLEX. I thought PLEX might know what Apple was up to. Been with PLEX for along time and always enjoyed watching “Trailers” for the movies I’ve added to my server. When did “Allow Cinema Trailers” come along, obviously I missed its addition. When it did launch did it have a default setting of “On”? Somehow once I realized I was talking about two different things (Cinema Trailers and Movie Trailers) I found the Setting for Cinema Trailers and it indeed was turned on to its lowest setting. Once I moved it to zero the offending trailers went away. I use Apple begrudgingly as I find them oblivious to their customers use. They delete things, change major parts, change the way you access things you need, in their incessantly occurring Updates and then Updates to fix the Update mistakes. They extract a premium price for their hardware and then die trying to wring the last penny out of everything.
I think it’d be a pretty major scandal if Apple is inserting itself into app’s operations. Currently, Apple stays out.
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