Didn’t ChuckPa just say that it’s not tied to your content or server? Not seeing the issue.
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nope it does not say this. it states - we do not collect or store metadata (information about the specific file, cover art, subtitles, running length, etc.) FOR Personal Content stored on your personal Plex Media Server
not ABOUT
What would I do without you? /s
nope he said its not tied to your server. it IS tied to your content.
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So I have put metadata in my personal videos of the kids and grandkids for my use and my shared/managed users.
Is that metadata shard with Plex and indexed for other users ?
That should give some interesting results 
Just being silly here - laugh
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If the content can’t be tied to you or your server, what’s the difference?
i understand i am being very technical here. lol. that is sort of the point.
No metadata should be found by Plex for personal videos, therefore not cached. Right?
YES this is my point. lol. some don’t seem to understand this.
according to the policy yes. according to the statement by chuckpa nope.
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NFI and why I asked the question.
My titles and metadata I specifically add when I encode those home videos.
But if the metadata is just the result of a lookup, only cached for efficiency and in no way tied to any individual or their server, then I see no issue.
And what ChuckPA described is a completely different thing to this. Plex do not recieve, collect, or store information from your server about what is stored on it.
What they do maintain is a database of public source metadata for TV shows and movies. This database is used to provide results back when someone matches a piece of media using a TV or movie agent.
It’s essentially a one way street. Metadata can be sent to your Plex server, but isn’t sent from it.
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show me where it states this in the policy?
also if this were the case plex wouldn’t need users to add content to build a cache. they could scrape imdb for this data. etc…
also this is a lie chuckpa admitted it - It’s essentially a one way street. Metadata can be sent to your Plex server, but isn’t sent from it.
edit - i’ll drop it but chuckpa described a full circle. user has x-rated content, content sent to plex for caching, content return to another user in the “more with” hub. thats very clearly a two way street. and very interesting that plex caches items from users libraries is all i’m saying. it is not in compliance with those words i posted. just being super technical. also i suspected this yesterday and was told to “drop it” by chuckpa probably for this very reason. and today they have decided to be more transparent. very interesting to me. that’s all.
Thanks. You said it better than I did. I don’t know why I post on these endless loop threads.
“However, your Plex Media Server may anonymously send us filenames or other identifiers for your Personal Content for the sole purpose of providing metadata back to your personal Plex Media Server”
They’re not getting content from users. The data is being obtained from other sources as a result of a user providing a filename for matching (as is set out in the policy). The issue is that the data that is found and subsequently cached wasn’t complete or was incorrect and there doesn’t seem to have been a specific process to clean it up.
Where?
TBH, as a user, this just gets more confusing and complicated as time goes on.
Plex employees posts should be sticky posts so users can go to source and avoid the constant one liners from some.
I’ve dropped a few as well but try my best to argue my point, provide links and context.
ps - I add ratings to my home videos of the kids/grandkids in some cases, most of the time blank. Some of the titles and metadata will confuse with TV and Movie titles as well 
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i will drop it. but my ocd will not let me let you off the hook that they say they don’t store it. that’s all. they admit they do store it. users build a cache. plex is not building their own cache.
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Chuckpa says this also gets sent to others for matching purposes.
They are grabbing my metadata off personal files ?
edited my above argument to argue this full circle implementation exactly.
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