Server Version#: whatever
Player Version#: who cares
Seriously, from bad to worse. Why is my plex server trying to make me watch ad content in my own library?! You guys are making this really Youtubey, really Amazon prime you know? The stuff that shoves ads down your throat until you can’t breathe. Pretty soon you’ll start selling our personal data to Google, right? What’s next? Automatic subscription to some infested candida crotch sniffing service like Tidal? Since you guys don’t like the peristalsis product that starts with s, there you go, read away losers; 2021 and they’re banning ‘bad words’. What’s next, you gonna tell mommy on me?
Get over yourselves. ASK if I want the damn remote movies, don’t push it in my face like I don’t have a choice. Always someone trying to decide for me.
every user with a plex account must disable themselves if they don’t wish to use them.
you cannot control someone elses account, the plex content does NOT come from your server, no server is even required, all clients can access the plex content without a server.
I did that but I’m using plex from the local network, without authentication. When that’s true, account preferences do not matter.
Also, don’t take it personally, you’re using a product you didn’t make. If I say the product is utter trash, I’m not saying you are utter trash.
Fact is, I do not have a choice, I have a remedy - after the fact, I get to turn it off. But I wasn’t given a choice of whether to have it on or off in the first place. There’s a difference.
To clarify: you misunderstood the type of ads I’m talking about. I’m talking about online media which is pushed everywhere including in my own library’s Movies tab. What you call “not automatically subscribed to anything” is again a misunderstanding on your part. The Online Media is an automatic subscription; the tabs are online media tabs that are pushed at the top of the menu, secluding the menu of my local plex server. That is the very definition of “automatic subscription”.
Thanks but that’s already done for the account. I don’t know if guests are still plex.tv accounts or people who are not logged in at all. I believe the first option is true.
The common sense approach to that is to ASK if I want the option to see ad supported content.
Funny how you state “you cannot control someone else’s account” yet that’s EXACTLY what you do. You control my account, everyone’s account by automatically enabling content that benefits you financially and nullifies my choice.
The solution does not work - I already have the option disabled, I still see online media and my menu is still hijacked by the online media tabs, I have to click “MORE” then pick my own media server just to see its menu or listings.
It’s not that plex doesn’t do what I want it to, it’s that plex does not do what it says it does.
Every change I’ve experienced with updates has been negative. There’s a blatant lack of respect towards the user on the part of the developer, and this is my response as a user – equally lacking of respect. Treat me like I’m a human being with a choice, I will treat you the same.
Right now I have pi-hole block plex.tv connections. I would like to use some of the functionality like pulling in pretty pictures and descriptions, but not at the expense of having ads being shoved down my throat.
Have you unpinned those items? I never see any Plex content in my home screen. I only see On Deck, Continue Watching, Recently Added (for each of my pinned libraries) and Recent Channels (from my own Live TV & DVR).
And that is the problem. I’m visiting MY OWN plex server instance, running on MY OWN computer, and you’re telling me I have no control over it shoving ads down my throat or hijacking my menu. That is the problem with enabling things by default.
I’m not using plex without an account because I’m a lunatic, it’s because plex offers the option to do so for IP ranges List of IP addresses and networks that are allowed without auth. I don’t want to always type in an email and password to be able to get to my interface already. It’s on my TV, I’m on the couch already, just let me enjoy myself don’t bring complexity for the sake of making a few bucks.
Do not enable stuff by default, ask if I want it. Basic user decency. Or at the very least, respect the trust that was placed in you by running said plex server on a computer that does not belong to you and go common sense defaults when people are not logged in - like not pushing ads or hijacking menus, for example. Because of your lack of respect I’m now stuck between 2 ugly choices:
Always log in at plex.tv. Remember the password, find the keyboard or struggle with the outrageous air remote stuff. Amazing experience, always want to do that.
Completely block connections to plex.tv and deal with the absurdity of my menu being hijacked and showing just some odd white bars, requiring me to click More > to get to my own content. Unacceptable and downright infuriating experience.
I went with 2. Ain’t nobody got time to log in every time.
If you are using a player app that is not signed into an account then that app will load up the online media sources, regardless if you have a server or not. This will never change.
No user means potential customer. If I see a bunch of ad infested offerings I am not giving you money. You’re already making it off of ads, you don’t deserve any of my money, you’re over-reaching.
And again, the plex server’s web interface is not an app on an iPad someone randomly picked up. I’m trying to get to my own library, not your online crapware.
I think that’s a very reasonable expectation, and is the source of this confusion for many people. However, that’s not how it actually works.
It’s an app. The Plex Web App is very similar whether it’s loaded from https://app.plex.tv or from your server. (And to a lesser degree, when it’s embedded in the Plex app for Windows or Mac.)
That’s important because the App itself isn’t solely controlled by the server, even if it was loaded from that server.
I am aware of the workarounds, but they they’re not permanent. You have to store those changes somewhere, and you choose cookies or localstorage. It’s patching an issue that should not exist in the first place. That’s my point, and it’s one you keep ignoring alongside the fact that Plex is ignoring the user and focusing on money.
You can call it whatever kind of app you want, it’s served by the plex server which I’m running. It should not display ads and hijack menus. It’s as simple as that. You know who else pulls this kind of crap? Avast. You get a browser installed on your machine without your permission or notification. “You can always uninstall it if you don’t need it”. Sure, because that’s the problem! I just didn’t know I could uninstall it, oh, oopsie daisy! There we go, now I’m straight.
Nothing to see here folks, nothing to do with the fact that plex violated my trust and abused the rights it obtained on my system by portraying itself as “a personal media server”.
