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…

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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. :wink: 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 “suggestion…

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 …

Getting ads when playing media from my own library!?!?!

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JohnAlex August 28, 2023, 12:22am 4

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Deselect the ones you don’t want

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