The amount of coding and regression testing to make a “Show RT Reviews and Ratings: enable/disable” has to be on par with the smallest change imaginable. If their page rendering engine is so fragile as to not “just wrap the RT block in a conditional” then we all greatly overestimate their abilities.
To the ambitious Plex dev out there reading this… “Just do it. Work one extra hour one night.” You’ll instantly have 200 new best friends.
Of course we can all justforgetaboutit and use Infuse as our player, which personally I prefer in several ways.
Yes, Plex is a business, but they have my lifetime pass money. Just give me one more checkbox, please!
Well, I am using the old “legacy” Movie agent (which allows 3rd-party-scanners/agents). Internally, the reviews are arrays that can be nulled (ie. no reviews at all) or manipulated (within boundaries). I have written an add-on agent that can use collections or reviews to show awards and nominations.
This is why I find their argument that such an addition is “difficult”, and would be time consuming, to be completely disingenuous. It gives me no confidence whatsoever in their team, as this is something that could be knocked out in a minuscule amount of time (comparatively speaking) if they actually wanted to do so.
The truth is that they get paid by RottenTomatoes to display the reviews on all Plex media, so Plex staff have no incentive whatsoever to add such a feature to hide said reviews as they would be losing money by doing so. They should at least have the guts to say so instead of stringing Plex users along for all these years. Why should I get a Plex pass when this is how the company conducts themselves?
Yeah I’d kill for the ability to remove this. I’ve carefully curated my collection of movies and I like them. I don’t want to be told that the crowd hates them. So bloody lame.
You can use this AdGuard filter to block reviews via app.plex.tv and the Plex Desktop app — accessing via 127.0.0.1 I couldn’t get to work automatically.
This doesn’t remove it from say Apple TV, however it’s a start. It might also work on the Plex mobile app if you have AdGuard running on the mobil e (haven’t tested yet).
We’ve just had the 4 year anniversary for the OP in this thread, and it’s nearly a year since we had interactions from Plex.
I’m going to make long-term plans to migrate; where Plex is headed is not where I want to be headed, and that’s fine - and it’s sad, but it is what it is.
I can edit an old post, so I can say here - THANK YOU FOR IMPLEMENTING.
I agree. Nobody wants Plex to block Rotten Tomatoes or any other database, we just want the option to hide it. Which I think only a few people would use, like me, who just don’t care what other people think of their favourite movie or show.
I just don’t know where else to go. I tried Emby yesterday, and while it’s possible to hide the RT score, the ‘community ratings’ still show up, and there’s no way to disable them in bulk. Or rather, I haven’t figured out how to get rid of the ratings in Emby. You can remove them manually, but that would take forever for the hundreds of films I have.
