I’ve been a plexpass member for about 10 years at least now, and a lifetime member since 2017 I think it was. Just recently I caught it on plex mobile and thought it was a fluke. Now it happened at home. I am getting ads when playing media from my own library. What the hell is going on!??
My guess is that the film you are actually playing is not one from your library but rather from one of the crap services that Plex has decided to inflict on their users.
I thought this might be the case, but this was coming from a suggestion of a series I was watching [within my own library]. So either A) they are putting ads into playing my own library files, or B) they are overriding my play request from my library files to the crap streamers. Either way is not OK.
Plex Online Media Sources
settings/online-media-sources
Deselect the ones you don’t want
My guess is B because A makes no sense at all. Plex is quite stupid at times but even at their worst they are not that stupid, I think. 
Just because it was from a suggestion from your library it does not mean it was actually from your library.
I’ve noticed that Plex places their “suggestions” for playback ahead of any local choices. That is why I have now disabled every single one of the crap services.
They all should be off by default but Plex knows best so all the junk defaults to on. It is the Plex way or the highway most of the time.
Thanks, I went ahead and did this. I had all the stream sources unchecked, but didnt know this setting was there. I’ve disabled online streams for everything…hopefully that will clean things up.
If you use the Home Hub option to “Continue Watching” anything, Plex pulls the content for this from ALL libraries, including online media sources. What can happen when watching a show, is it will choose to display the “next episode” of a show from the online Plex database instead of your own. It might have something to do with the order of your libraries, or it may be random.
This is partially because Plex (the company) tries its best to not know what you have in your server. Since the ID for a show in their online service and the ID for a show on your own server are the same, Plex has no way of knowing which version of the show you were originally watching, and it just “picks” one.
I have a two libraries with the same movie, but different content (commentary tracks. I found it easiest to do it this way). If I pause a movie and resume the next day, Plex might show the non-commentary version to continue instead. Just a kind of quirk of Plex.
To make sure you are going to resume your own copy of a file, go the Library itself that has the content, and use the “Continue Watching” hub there.
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