Discover is taking over my plex

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On some devices (Firestick / xbox / ios) that don’t have categories pinned all they see is discover and can’t watch anything unless someone navigates into more > Plex > server pins.

How do I disable Discover ?

When I search for media that is installed (web), DISCOVER “More ways to watch” pops up, no longer presents search results of MY media.

I understand the sellouts that run Plex sold out to Rockwell Automation in 2021 and now the parent company is giving the finger to all of us who have invested in this product the last decade and most of us will be leaving to Emby and other such products because of Discover, a show of this unscrupulous corporate greed.

We need some hacks to disable Discover.

like for example disabling the python script:
mv /usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pyudev/discover.py /usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pyudev/discover.py.bak
service plexmediaserver restart

Now to purge from the view or database and block all updates.

Maybe I should do a:
yum history plexmediaserver
yum history undo plexmediaserver
(unfortunately with a recent re-build furthest I could go back is 2021. Anyone got older packages ?)

Let’s figure out a way to take back Plex for us users who have spend hundreds of dollars on this product and return control of our media back to the user.

Devs, do you care at all that the actions of the teams with this new directive is killing Plex Media server ?

Help us to disable Discover and have some freedom over our own media or we will all be forced to cancel our Plex Passes, trash our lifetime memberships, and simply move on.

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I’ll try not to be a Plex Apologist, but I’ve found ways to minimize the impact of Discover by using existing settings.

  • Disable Discover from Search settings mostly kills it there
  • Unpinning it or moving it to the bottom of my left nav does a lot to remove my thinking about it

So, there are still remnants of it left as it pertains to the borked web search and such… I’m just patiently waiting for fixes there to roll out. These aren’t ideal solutions, but I’ve found that in daily driving, they help. Let’s see what others are doing…

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The bug which causes all libraries to get unpinned is supposed to be fixed in Android app version 9.3.0.

Amazon Fire* devices run the Plex Android TV app.

On all other devices, make sure that:

  • your own libraries are pinned
  • Discover is NOT pinned
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I didn’t know about the search disabling. Took me a bit of wandering in my server settings before I found it in the search bar instead.

unpin

Now, discover is pretty much entirely gone.

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