I request that the week in review “feature” be either removed or made an opt in feature. I don’t want to know what my friends are watching, I don’t want them to know what I am watching.
To make it opt out is very VERY concerning.
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better yet let’s not share anybody’s watch history. Turn this off
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Sharing history it is set to private by default but if you just select Finish on the pop up without changing the suggested selections it will change to those selections. You can change them back to private in your profile settings. https://app.plex.tv/desktop/#!/profile/edit
The email was i believe enabled by default by mistake. You can unsubscribe from emails via the the unsubscribe link in the email or via the email preferences on your account page both of which take you here. https://www.plex.tv/email-preferences
It is still happening. I posted a screenshot after creating a new account this afternoon in the other thread and all options are still set to subscribed. This needs to be a top priority fix.
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OK. I only found that out not long before reading this topic. My understanding could be mistaken. I will pass it along though.
Wait so… Everyone can see everyone else’s watch history because of a mistake by Plex devs?
Also, I have disabled all permissions I can find yet my friends can still see my watch history.
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We do not have watch history for any account unless that account turned on Watch State Syncing which was a feature released about a year and half ago
no as mentioned watch history is private by default for all accounts. if one chose to keep the suggested settings in the popup as they were and clicked finish those would have changed.
I was only speaking of the email digest being enabled by default. which i could be wrong about. If someone chose to make their history available to friends then history can view viewed in profile, activity feeds and emails. If you have your history set to private then it will not be part of any of those
Can you take a screenshot of what you mean. Your privacy setting on are your profile. If you are checking this by your friend remaining on a page before you changing the setting they would need to leave the page and come back ( or refresh if in browser) for it to update with you history removed.
The icon here your profile will be the one with a line though it when private. ( which can also be clicked on to open privacy settings)
I went back and found old emails going back to December 2022 showing watch history from my “friends”. What I do find interesting though is that there’s ZERO documentation in this article about Plex sending emails of this data: https://support.plex.tv/articles/sync-watch-state-and-ratings/
I will request info about the new features be added to that article as to where the history may show up.
It’s convenient to claim it’s a mistake since saying otherwise would be confessing to a crime in many countries.
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I’m not a lawyer and have no idea what is a crime in various countries. As I said I may have been wrong and it wasn’t a mistake
It may still be a confession. I am not a qualified legal expert on this topic in any one jurisdiction, let alone in all of them world-wide, but intent is not a necessary component of every crime/tort; and even when it is, it may only affect severity. Speaking way over-broadly, when you injure someone’s interests, there is generally some degree of liability with or without intent.
I wonder if this fiasco will be of interest to any of those class action legal practices. While I’m generally not a fan, and the injured end users would probably end up with no more than pennies in settlement, the cost to Plex in defending the action could still be significant which is the point.
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I seriously hope the opt in without warning is/was a mistake, as the way it is at the moment may well be a breach of GDPR
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sooo… NOT private by default. This feels like to trick to be able to claim “private by default” but make most people “default” back to sharing this stuff.
Do better.
Yes. Yes it was very much a mistake. Fix it.
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It was also suggested here:
that it was a mistake:
But that was 8 days ago and new accounts still default to all options enabled.
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Honestly, at this point there needs to be a mass reset of ALL users to have their email preferences set to “unsubscribe from all”, and an explicit opt-in choice sent.
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LOL then these are the defaults. You can’t gaslight people like that.
Any settings that are set if the user does not change them themselves, are the default settings. It’s not a difficult concept to grasp, or to explain, unless Plex actively wants to mislead people.
The proof is the hundreds of people complaining that they were enrolled in mailing lists and having their watch histories sent via email when they did not select any such option because they did not see it - or because they skipped instead of reading all this text before they could watch something. Plus all the news articles that are popping up in the tech press currently.
Please ask your bosses to come clean with you. This is a clear GDPR violation, plain and simple. You may not know it as an employee, but Plex management is obliged to know it as they run a data-driven business.
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Never edit or delete this post. This post specifically is the smoking gun that I have submitted to European Data Protection Supervisor.
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It’s described all right here in more detail. Discover Together: Public Release - #3 by PlexInfo
This is a terrible feature. Is there a way to vote to have this removed… Plex is slowly becoming a NARK!.. This will drive away many loyal users.
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