At any rate, I’m curious.
I have opted out of Plex data collection. I have Plex app on two smart TV’s and a Shield player within my home. Plex is also running on a htpc in my office, on my phone and the missus has a few web browsers logged on.
Looking at my DNS traffic Plex is DOMINATING blocked queries.
This is from less than 24 hours. Plex analytics accounts for almost 50% of my blocked DNS traffic in PiHole.
I only discovered this because I had to set up my PiHole from scratch again and added some new block lists.
This seems excessive. This is worse than all google tracking combined within my network. I cannot see any justification for this, it’s practically abusing my network at this rate.
And again, this is while being OPTED OUT OF ANALYTICS!
I realize you’re responding as if I have caused an issue for myself… but that’s just it. I don’t see any particularly compelling reason to transmit analytics of any sort.
It’s now up to 19.000 queries out of 30.000 during the last 24 hours.
Either way you slice it, that’s excessive - I don’t really much care if I’m making the issue more prevalent by actively blocking it, either.
If there’s an opt-out on my profile page, which I could only find by googling it - not intuitively, that should take care of it.
Unless people check their own DNS how are they supposed to know this is going on?
Are you saying that there is no way to disable this behavior at all?
So yeah, it seems Plex HTPC is by far the worst offender. This is from my workstation which has the HTPC installed accounting for around 90% of the blocked queries.
