@BigWheel since there are rules for online advertisement in the EU as well as in Germany, Austria, etc… I spoke to a lawyer earlier today.
As a result of this, you should make sure to properly mark any single result of a product of streaming services in user searches clearly as “avertisement” (in the user language) to consent with federal German and EU law… At the moment, one of three different keywords must be used for ecery such search result.
Furthermore, Plex Inc needs to disclose certain details about those partnerships within the softwar product. I do not remenber all those details he listed, but it is clearly not enough to hide them on a web page unrelated to the PMS software product or hidden in “AGBs”.
Third, advertising directed at minors must not contain a direct solicitation to purchase - for example, search results for family or children movies. Users not actively consenting to include advertisements in their search results for PMS libraries cannot be considered to know that kids or other minors get in contact with advertisements directly directed at them.
I did not initiate any action since it was only an informal talk to him. Please don’t consider German / EU citizens’ rights as something that Plex Inc. as a company is free to ignore.
And please consider this message as a friendly reminder to take action to comply.
If you want an example of what that law means, just use a computer from within the EU and do a search with Google. You will notice that every advertisement that Google puts to the result page is properly marked as such. And it is very easy to find thier disclosures on advertising, their partnerships, etc…
