The past few movies I’ve watched (or more accurately, my child) has prompted me on my Android tablet to leave a review for that movie.
So the question is, to Plex people, is my server reporting to you what I’m watching - and you’re using that telemetry to spam me? If so, this is wrong on several levels. I’ve always believed that Plex do not track user activity. If I’m wrong in that belief, I will have no hesitation in removing Plex from every device I have and switching to Emby.
The attached screenshots show what I’m talking about. Now if it’s just a simple case of the Plex client on my tablet realizing a movie has been watched (on AppleTV as it happens) then just giving me a generic toast notification, that’s one thing. But if my PMS is reporting back to home base that such-an-item has been watched and you’re using that to trigger push notifications… then that’s something else. I have no desire for my family’s viewing habits to be stored by Plex - there’s a reason we ditched the main streaming services.
You have Watch State Syncing enabled, which is not enabled by default. If your kids or others are using your account they may have turned in on in a client.
Yes, that was my realization too. I like the idea of syncing watched status across devices. However I don’t like the idea of Plex holding a record of what’s been watched. Before my daughter came along I used to have my “adult” media on there. I can imagine getting a notification on the phone “Do you want to review Big Wet Melons 4?”
Being prompted to leave a review is annoying. Also there has to be a better way of being able to sync media info across devices without media titles being sent to Plex. I don’t know what that way is - because dammit Jim, I’m a user, not an engineer.
There is a specific mobile setting for this in the Settings > Notifications.
See the above mobile setting to prevent this notification in general. Regardless of the mobile notification setting, we have several gates and filters in place to prevent explicitly adult content from surfacing into any Activity feed or Discover areas.
if you are just using your own server to watch content then it is already syncing across devices. This is for users that watch stuff from multiple servers. or if you lose your database and cant recover then plex is still holding your watch state history on their servers as well.
I only use my server and my watch state is maintained on my server and each device sees that info from the server.
Ok that makes sense. I was wondering about that with everything being on one server. I just haven’t had time (or inclination, before now) to play with the settings to see what happens. But that definitely sounds like the route I’d prefer.
Well, you know how it is with sequels, they’re never as good as the previous one. The plumber STILL didn’t fix her sink, although he did take care of her backflush issue.
. They say they do not know where you watched it from, but they know you watched it.