What data from your server is being shared, exactly? Plex have stated that the contents of your server aren’t available to them (and there’s no reason they need to be for this feature to work, and we have no specific reason to think they’re lying to us).
Edit: Seems this was addressed and acknowledged before I refreshed the page.
If it’s account level then even if it can’t be changed from the clients it can be set on a different device or web browser & then it would work wherever that user account is using it
lol. Yeah, this has been addressed multiple times, but people, with questionable media sources I imagine, are always going to think a knock on the door is the Navy come to capture Will Turner. I think half those here are just because of that fear, rather than because it’s barely Beta & not ready for release.
Or both. But we all know the latter is pretty key.
Clients are at account level.
Right, but my point was that some clients don’t give you the option to change some settings, but since it’s account level (there are some client settings that are app level & you loose if you reset, reinstall or change devices) if that’s the case the user could use the web app to make those changes & then they would cross over to the client that doesn’t let them
That’s a design decision by Plex, not a technical limitation.
Just gonnna… leave this here
I want nothing to do with other streaming services.
Period.
I want nothing to do with podcasts, or channels, or anything. I want my media server for my media. When I’m using Plex on my Xbox or my AppleTV, I want to be seeing only what’s on my media server. Not Netflix, not Hulu, nothing.
Period.
That’s what I have Plex for. That’s what my invited friends and family use Plex to access my server for. We have our own streaming service accounts if we want to use those services.
This should never have been rolled out without a system to say “NO.”
They’re absolutely ruining Plex with these forced, invasive features. I doubt the poor developers forced to mutilate the program are getting a cut of the investor blood money behind this. Maybe they’ll revolt. We can only hope
Definitely not. I know the Roku app can’t do things because it’s limited by the rules for Roku apps. That was a contributing factor when I replaced a Roku (it was old too) with a Google TV Chromecast. But also I know Plex stated somewhere that the development teams for the different clients are like independent or maybe just that they are separate groups, or something like that. Regardless the point was that IF you run into the problem that you CAN’T adjust the setting on your client, it being associated with the account should carry over from the web client or others
Feature settings aren’t limited. Purchase options are limited by rules of the app store the client is on.
Voted for NO “More Ways To Watch”!
i hate it…
Thank you!
These ‘features’ are cancer, this is not what Plex was originally made for.
I can understand companies wanting to change over time but give users the choice!
+1 vote
It’s almost like they need to split the product into “Plex” with all the streaming management for normies, and then fork off “Plex Core” which is just the self-hosted library elements for the power users who want plex to be what plex originally was…
Another alternative to look at is Mezzmo.
Windows only for the server though, which is severely limiting when most of us i presume run servers on linux.
All they need to do is provide user controls for Discover.
Which they could have learned with a proper beta test.
I’m just saying from a high-level view, if they want to push the product to be a meta-streaming aggregation thing, that’s fine, it wouldn’t hurt to split the products into the two major user groups. I don’t think there’s much crossover between them - if you get into plex for “Free streaming!” you probably aren’t going to run your own media library, and vise versa - if you have TBs of content, you’re not interested in the streaming value add clutter to populate an otherwise empty library.
There is just no money in continuing to service users with local content.
Ad-supported content will always generate more money, and that seems to be the path for Plex based on the people they have hired recently.
We got them started and built up their user base, but they will be taking it all way from us.
If you’re doing anything that requires screen capture it’s not ever going to happen. Not while Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hulu, HBO Max and every other thing people pay for Plex to get away from has a finger in this pie. I’m not certain but I’m almost certain that this is because of the Widevine certification that is require for these services.
If Plex doesn’t get itself back on track and giving solutions to problems that actually exist, I’m leaving and I’m making it my business to take everyone that I’ve convinced to install it elsewhere. Camera upload was taken away, free ad supported movies and shows were added, now they brough all the places we left into our homes.
I could go on but I’ll just leave it there.
