Thank you for not allowing me to disable news feed. I have a Plex user account for my 5 and 9 year old that only allows kids shows. Since I can’t disable this I have to switch to emby… You have scared my kids cause they flip thru the news feed and get freeked out of shootings and things going on in the world…
Thanks a lot for not allowing us not to disable on local created accounts
@sstretchh said:
Thank you for not allowing me to disable news feed. I have a Plex user account for my 5 and 9 year old that only allows kids shows. Since I can’t disable this I have to switch to emby… You have scared my kids cause they flip thru the news feed and get freeked out of shootings and things going on in the world…Thanks a lot for not allowing us not to disable on local created accounts
As a PlexPass member, you can create a managed account that won’t show the news feed. It’s kinda a workaround.
Here is information regarding the news feed discussion and what was done to fix.
https://forums.plex.tv/discussion/289467/news-is-now-blasted-all-over-my-kids-account
@sstretchh said:
Thank you for not allowing me to disable news feed. I have a Plex user account for my 5 and 9 year old that only allows kids shows. Since I can’t disable this I have to switch to emby… You have scared my kids cause they flip thru the news feed and get freeked out of shootings and things going on in the world…Thanks a lot for not allowing us not to disable on local created accounts
I made a post earlier today that wasn’t accurate so I deleted it as I didn’t want to confuse anyone with it being here. I apologize for that. I’ll try again. LOL
Before you feel forced to switch to Emby here is another way you can configure your kids accounts so they won’t have news.
You can create MANAGED HOME accounts that do NOT have their own Plex.tv login. These accounts will NOT have the NEWS menu show up.
I don’t know if this is possible for you to use or not but is one possibility you could deploy to rid your kids separate accounts of the News section.
You can test this yourself by creating a “TestDad” account, share a library or two with it then switch users to this account and look, no news. 
Carlo
I’m going to freeze plex as well. i’m glad to know what version was the last with a working opt out. I’ve installed Emby and purchased a lifetime pass. Seems to work great for my needs and Emby solves an on going problem I’ve had using playlists on Roku classic ( for use with SD output roku 2 units). Both servers are happy together. I’m also installing a PI-Hole system in the house ( very cheap way to block data collection on the devices that i can’t control revisions on). I love plex and have been using it for several years but they have been slowing drifting away from my very simple needs.
Just had a look on Pi-Hole! AWSOME!!!
I’ll have that installed right away. So far I used ad-blockers on my browsers and for my Plex Server I just added deny-rules on my firewall. Pi-Hole seems to be a much better approach.
I just downgraded to plex 0.9.16.6 on my windows home server. Whats cool it that i just uninstalled the current version and installed the new version and database was recognized and even the playlists work. The android and amazon tablet clients work with this version of server. The old rarplex (which i still have on my roku) works and also the classic version and the new version. I don’t use any of the new features (users / dvr / shield) so this may work out fine. I know there’s no support for this old version but it was very stable for me (running on a NAS4Free box) and i can always experiment with different versions. I was also wondering about running different versions in a docker container as a way to see if any problems i have with a old revision are actually fixed in a new revision without inducing additional problems. Anyway the Pi Hole will be installed this weekend and that should reduce the data collection as well :). Very happy that the downgrade to the previous version was so straight forward. Plus Emby is running beside it as a backup. Thanks again marcelhehle
You might have a look into the Emby forum … there’s a guy who has written a migration tool that would also move metadata (watched status, favorites, …) from Plex over to Emby.
Very handy if you run both in parallel.
@nk1 said:
I just downgraded to plex 0.9.16.6 on my windows home server. Whats cool it that i just uninstalled the current version and installed the new version and database was recognized and even the playlists work.
Thanks for the tip. I grabbed a copy of 0.9.16.6 (Windows) and looks ok on my test server, it also recognised the database fine.
I know there will be those thinking don’t do that, not supported, no security updates etc etc etc but until Plex sort out the mess they created I’m happy to explore all options from v.0.9 to Emby (p.s. Emby slightly ahead but missing iOS snyc)
Emby has a few holes currently. There is a limit (15) of premium devices that can access the server (they have a week timeout - so after a week of non-use the device drops off the list) and current the fire tablet app has been dropped from amazon (they say its being worked but it been since June time frame). The biggest reason for the jump it that my roku2’s connected to SD tv’s support playlists under Emby. i was casting from a amazon tablet to a rasplex outputting SD and it was working but the latest version on rasplex had some screen issues that made me wish for a better solution. I also love the fact that Emby can be told to put associated metadata/resources in the directory of the video. I back up the video directories and then i don’t need to rescrape the internet if the database crashes. I’m assuming that, with the fall of net neutrality enforcement, that external bandwidth will soon become costly (which is another reason to have a local server instead of cloud and block ads / metrics with pi hole). I understand Trakt will work across both servers (only issue it it doesn’t support transferring the exact position of where you left off watching a video - but watched / unwatched works fine) but i don’t use watched / unwtached - everything i have i’e seen at least once 
anyway.
Just wanted to add my vote in for disabling news on the server level. Ridiculous that this was pushed on users with no option to disable.
@mherm88 said:
Just wanted to add my vote in for disabling news on the server level. Ridiculous that this was pushed on users with no option to disable.
Some people might argue that they want to have the option and should be left up to the user watching. But the ability to disable should be given to every account holder.
@NewPlaza said:
Some people might argue that they want to have the option and should be left up to the user watching. But the ability to disable should be given to every account holder.
I believe this is exactly the way this will work. Each user will be able to configure this themselves and it will apply to all clients they use as it will be tied to their Plex user account. I believe Admins will be able to configure this for managed account (e.g. children).
That is my understanding at this point in time but don’t stick me to that as anything could change before it’s released.
@cayars It’s also got to look like it’s separate to the Server content - I don’t want friends or family thinking that has anything to do with me. At the least that will end with me explaining how to disable it (when we finally get that option). At most I get blamed for someone’s kids watching death, disease and murder…
@Rycochet said:
At most I get blamed for someone’s kids watching death, disease and murder…
Yeah, thought the same thing… I actually sent out an email to all friends/family letting them know this is not me and I have no control over it. So far, I know at lease one of my friends has not allowed their kids to watch Plex due to this death, disease, and murder thing…
@marcelhehle said:
You might have a look into the Emby forum … there’s a guy who has written a migration tool that would also move metadata (watched status, favorites, …) from Plex over to Emby.Very handy if you run both in parallel.
Do you have a link for this? I tried search over there but didn’t come up with anything for migration tool plex-emby
Here you go …
https://emby.media/community/index.php?/topic/51528-developing-a-plex-metadata-exporter-emby-importer-tool-for-movies/
@NewPlaza said:
@Rycochet said:
At most I get blamed for someone’s kids watching death, disease and murder…Yeah, thought the same thing… I actually sent out an email to all friends/family letting them know this is not me and I have no control over it. So far, I know at lease one of my friends has not allowed their kids to watch Plex due to this death, disease, and murder thing…
If they are semi-tech savvy, they can block the domain names used by the Plex client on their router. The addresses are here in a thread. If the Plex client can’t pull the news it doesn’t show the News option.
I am glad I am not the only one that is disgruntled about the news channel forcibly added.
If there is no way to remove it soon… I will be uninstalling plex, and telling the host of other people (that i convinced to get it and pay for it) to move ship to something else. Give me the version i paid for, not this updated extra stuff that I am forced to update to (YES forced, the Roku app will stop working with the plex server until the server is updated).
Plex, you need to stop adding features that are driving your customers away.
All I use plex for is our home tv, and kids tablets inside the home, and sometimes from my computer.
Why in the hell would i watch stupid ass news; we all know that ■■■■ is the most biased bullshit and over-hyped over-sensationalized pile of ■■■■■ out there.
seems like Plex is turning into another Late Stage Capitalism failure.
Plex People ‘news’ come on!! I Pay for a subscription to Plex Pass, so let me ‘pass’ on this feature. Don’t want it, didn’t ask for it. Come on at least let users disable it if they pay for a Plex Pass. It’s stuff like this when developers go ‘off piste’ that loose users. Plex you have made a great app, make it work and be stable and all that lovely stuff but don’t get all apple on us and stuff it with bloatware and ‘cool features’ that no one wants or needs. Thanks.
Just out curiosity, can anyone from @plex comment on the actual usage statistics of news?
Are there actually people using it and just us media enthousiasts that dislike it or is it kinda a general thing? Is there a chance that it’ll be abandoned like Plex for Kodi and OpenPHT or is this here for the long run?
The watchup acquisition must be earned back I’m sure, but I was just wondering if all we hear are the people who dislike and a minority?
