Checking "Send Anonymous Usage Data To Plex"... What Is Actually Sent??

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Hi
I have checked “Send Anonymous Usage Data To Plex” in my PMS.

What data exactly is sent to Plex?
Is it sent unsolicited to Plex or does Plex query for the data.
When Plex has the data how is it used and for what?

Just Curious
Thanks

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https://www.plex.tv/about/privacy-legal/

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Thanks for the reply but that link did not talk about that checkmark in the server. It was general in nature and standard Privacy Statement

So if I uncheck it, what data does not go to Plex???

In other words what am I opting into when I check that box.

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have you even tried to search?

The exact setting is mentioned on the support site, and plex have answered this before in other threads.

Most of the angst these days around “Plex never answers me” is caused by people not searching to see where the questions have already been answered - lets not keep doing that.

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Just did as @trudge suggested above and found this:

Send anonymous usage data to Plex
Plex uses information about media matching and other basic usage to help improve your experience using Plex. You can choose to help this by allowing the Plex Media Server to send anonymous data back to Plex.

Still leaves something to interpretation, I guess. Does that mean it sends the media names? Does it send who is logged on and watching a stream? Does it record what type of stream? Or bitrates sent? Library names and contents?

Users you’ve sent invites to, we know they can track, as there have been a lot of support questions about this, and there were very specific replies about it.

This is really just a general statement, and doesn’t line out the specifics at all. Of course, I wouldn’t expect to find out what those specifics are…

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Well should it be checked or not??

What is the benefit???

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@MikeG6.5 said:
Just did as @trudge suggested above and found this:

Send anonymous usage data to Plex
Plex uses information about media matching and other basic usage to help improve your experience using Plex. You can choose to help this by allowing the Plex Media Server to send anonymous data back to Plex.

Still leaves something to interpretation, I guess. Does that mean it sends the media names? Does it send who is logged on and watching a stream? Does it record what type of stream? Or bitrates sent? Library names and contents?

Users you’ve sent invites to, we know they can track, as there have been a lot of support questions about this, and there were very specific replies about it.

This is really just a general statement, and doesn’t line out the specifics at all. Of course, I wouldn’t expect to find out what those specifics are…

then search for the existing threads with answers, there are tin foil hat types that have packet captured the whole thing.

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LOL

I am not paranoid. Just curious.
The tin foil heads have no idea what plex uses it for…

Maybe someone from plex could clue us in… or is it a secret???

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I have no clue but I have it unchecked on all my players.

I’m a privacy freak though. I have Win 10 but run spybot anti-beacon to block Microsoft out of my computer.

Every torrent I download is encrypted.

I send nothing back on any of my programs.