# How to disable stats reported to plex.com?
**URL:** https://forums.plex.tv/t/how-to-disable-stats-reported-to-plex-com/352506
**Category:** General Discussions
**Created:** [December 25, 2018, 7:04pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/how-to-disable-stats-reported-to-plex-com/352506 "2018-12-25T19:04:36Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@pcmerc](https://forums.plex.tv/u/pcmerc)
#### Post date: [December 25, 2018, 7:04pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/how-to-disable-stats-reported-to-plex-com/352506/1 "2018-12-25T19:04:37Z")
I notice in recent updates it now shows a bunch of statistical information on streams, bandwidth use, ect.
How do we disable this dogshit?
I have no interest in sharing any information with a service that collects data on it’s own accord.
If I want to know that kind of info, I’d write something or use a 3rd party tool locally.
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### Author:  [@dane22](https://forums.plex.tv/u/dane22)
#### Post date: [December 25, 2018, 7:08pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/how-to-disable-stats-reported-to-plex-com/352506/2 "2018-12-25T19:08:01Z")
When you use Plex, you go by the following:
[https://www.plex.tv/about/privacy-legal/](https://www.plex.tv/about/privacy-legal/)
If that’s not what you want, then stop using Plex!
You’ll find no help up here to bypass Plex !
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### Author:  [@pcmerc](https://forums.plex.tv/u/pcmerc)
#### Post date: [December 25, 2018, 7:19pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/how-to-disable-stats-reported-to-plex-com/352506/3 "2018-12-25T19:19:37Z")
It appears some of the stats collection can be disabled.
[https://www.plex.tv/about/privacy-legal/privacy-preferences/#opd](https://www.plex.tv/about/privacy-legal/privacy-preferences/#opd)
Time for some wireshark/tcpdump & some other tools.
I would not supply any free testing results to any companies supplying nothing in return & no source code access.
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### Author:  [@CWallace](https://forums.plex.tv/u/CWallace)
#### Post date: [December 25, 2018, 7:50pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/how-to-disable-stats-reported-to-plex-com/352506/4 "2018-12-25T19:50:49Z")
If you’re referring to the new Dashboard, I believe that information is kept entirely on your server. Can’t remember the thread that I read it on but it’s out there.
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### Author:  [@blim5001](https://forums.plex.tv/u/blim5001)
#### Post date: [December 25, 2018, 8:06pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/how-to-disable-stats-reported-to-plex-com/352506/5 "2018-12-25T20:06:13Z")
I think the thread might be this one:
> [@New dashboard question](https://forums.plex.tv/t/new-dashboard-question/349758):
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> Recently a new dashboard was introduced. This dashboard is only visible when using the dashboard at [plex.tv](http://plex.tv). Does that mean, that the Plex company can show and aggregate my data including individual Movie titles and what users are watching what? Does the Plex company store those individual values or aggregated values on servers that are not mine? I’m not very nervous when it comes to security stuff usually, but this goes way beyond what I would have expected. Please only serious answers here. …
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### Author:  [@numeratrix](https://forums.plex.tv/u/numeratrix)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2019, 12:55am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/how-to-disable-stats-reported-to-plex-com/352506/7 "2019-03-15T00:55:31Z")
Here’s the rub. Feeds within firewall packages like pfBlockerNG are automatically blocking anything viewed as malicious or a violation of privacy by their authors. It’s very difficult to know what you expect us to unblock without that same information.
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### Author:  [@BigWheel](https://forums.plex.tv/u/BigWheel)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2019, 1:00am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/how-to-disable-stats-reported-to-plex-com/352506/8 "2019-03-15T01:00:49Z")
> [@CWallace](#):
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> If you’re referring to the new Dashboard, I believe that information is kept entirely on your server. Can’t remember the thread that I read it on but it’s out there.
correct that is all stuff saved in your servers database.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forums.plex.tv/u/system)
#### Post date: [June 13, 2019, 1:00am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/how-to-disable-stats-reported-to-plex-com/352506/9 "2019-06-13T01:00:57Z")
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