I’m sooooo paranoid about the complete intrusiveness of this feature that I have spent the last two days DoD 5220.22-M wiping all my drives and setting up Jellyfin.
I also went through every single line of code for Jellyfin to analyze for data leaks. Once the drives are secure I will re-build the system with Jellyfin in a very restrictve sandbox using AES 256 drive encryption.
Only 732 TB left to wipe.
I’ll check back in 44 days.
If you are that paranoid that you’re going to get caught with whatever it is you don’t want anyone knowing you have I’d suggest just giving up on Plex. You’re never going to be happy with it. Plex is great, but it’s not for everyone
Tomorrow I’m closing down my bank and debit card that was used to pay Plex. I think this shows it’s now time to go 100% Monero. Can’t take any chances here.
Like The Kinks said “Paranoia, they destroy ya”
I can’t see where you can disable this on the Web.
Yes it does seem to be actually on the Apple TV.
Clicking on an item in watchlist does say “searching these providers.” It then disappears when it fails to find results.
However it doesn’t do this on the Shield “Other Providers” never appears unless it’s something that is actually available.
From here, in the Android TV Beta, and on the web app I can now disable More way to watch from the search bar, but still can’t from the Mobile beta app and the Windows 10 app, it’s still there.
I think it will come in the next hours…
However, in every app, there are still the streaming advertising in the Watchlist! Even though I unchecked all the streaming services ( I don’t use them AT ALL) and have the movie on my Plex server.
A movie I already bought and of course, I don’t wanna buy it twice or three times.
@DaveBinM @ChuckPa , do you know when Plex will stop advertising me and trying to sell me again a movie that I already own?
They aren’t trying to sell it to you, Your server is still 1st, they are telling you it’s also available other places, If you really don’t like it then don’t use the Watchlist. You didn’t have a watchlist before, so I don’t see what the problem is. They added it, that’s part of it. It was from the beginning. The Watchlist is actually pretty sucky in a ton of ways, hopefully those will be fixed in the future, but the ONLY real benefit of the watchlist is the fact it includes things not on your server, & shows where they can be found. If for some reason you REALLY want to use it for some reason just set your location to like North Korea where they don’t have any streaming services, then they won’t have any TO show
That’s an ad.
Same was with More way to watch ?
If i didn’t like it then why there are all those threads asking about to disable it when we could just leave plex ?
It is an advertising in my server. If i own the movie, I don’t want to have ads on my screen proposing me to buy it again.
That’s an ad. And an abhorrent one at that since we can’t nuke it from our plex pass servers.
It’s an ad in the loosest possible sense. In the UK at least I’d suspect you’d probably have a hard time convincing the regulating bodies that it was in fact advertising.
And if it really bothers you that much then just unpin discover and don’t use the watchlist. Problem solved.
Discover is already unpin, no streaming services checked.
The watchlist is a fonctionnality that everybody could use without having to be push to buy Amazon, Apple tv or hulu content.
I’m sorry you don’t have the answer to my question, anyway, i didn’t ask you.
Not really seeing the huge benefit or functionality use for it if you’re only ever interested in local content. But each to their own I guess…
In any event, it’s hardly pushing you to buy content from anywhere else. There’s nothing requiring you to click on any of the streaming services, none of them have a particular place of prominence or focus, they don’t leap out and require you to click through them in order to do anything else on the details page.
Honestly, if what plex is displaying is sufficient to make you feel that you’re being ‘pushed’ towards buying content then you must be an advertiser’s wet dream. I can only imagine your home is full of useless tat you’ve felt compelled to buy by the merest mention of it’s availability somewhere…
Watchlist is an ad hoc playlist. Just use a normal playlist and completely stop using watchlist.
This is simple people. Stop making it more difficult than it needs to be.
That’s actually a great idea.
I do really like the concept of the Universal Watchlist. But I find myself not wanting to use it much. And for me, the main reason I don’t really want to use it is this:
(Quote from a post I made in another thread)
Seems like for as long as you do not use watchlists should be good, yeah? I recall watchlists were never native to personal media and were always related to Plex streaming and just got extended to the discover feature, yeah?
+1 from me.
I use Plex for local media and only local media. Every time Plex has added something else (Podcasts, streaming content, whatever) I’ve disabled it.
I’ve already got Justwatch for managing streaming services. I don’t need Plex to start forcing results into search results, nor do I want it to do that.
Not when it comes to protecting kids.
