It might be good for Plex mods to close this thread. It’s clearly devolved into “I said … you said” with nothing new of value. The feature request has been made. Let it ride.
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I think its valuable for new voices to be able to add some text, but I could do without the circular arguments.
I think people are running off with opinions assuming they’re statements of fact that can be countered. Nobody is going to budge.
Funny enough I don’t have to see any of those things when I don’t have them pinned to my menu. My issue is it visible and adds a way to link 3rd party services there on every client on every home page and I don’t want it seen unless I toggle it to be, you know the same as the toggle that was added to search. And since it’s been pointed out by @LostOnTheLine anyone using my server can feel free to toggle it back on with any client they choose to just like they can pin the Movies & Shows and Live TV on Plex when it’s toggled off on My Server.
I will assume also this was meant to be sarcasm, if not was that you in front of me on my commute this morning?
In all seriousness we can all agree we are not talking Laws vs Requests correct?
That’s funny because one of the “Perks of Plex Pass” is to be able to watch and use My Server anywhere outside my home on all my devices (that are supported) whenever I want. Not to be slaved to My Server and the Web Client on that machine. It is the code of the webpage being produced by My Server and then injected into it by Plex, so you are correct, not on My actual Server but being added to it and I want a toggle to shut it off.
Yes, that was sarcasm.
Exactly. I ‘watch’ posts like this to keep up with how things evolve. But there’s nothing evolving here, which makes its usefulness limited at best. It’s not even entertaining anymore.
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I think from now on, i’ll just come here to see if there is a new Plex Employe post, that is the only thing that really matter now.
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Just a slight correction, it’s toggled off on your account, not your server. Anyone connecting to your server is either A.) Using your account, in which it is turned off, B.) Using a Managed User Account which can’t use these features even for those who would like to, or C.) Signed into their OWN account, which hasn’t, & should not have ANY access to your Account Settings nor anything in them. You know, for that privacy thing everyone keeps mentioning so hard… as well as other well founded & logical reasons.
On your settings page you have it divided into sections, each containing settings for different things.
- YOUR USERNAME (These Settings are for the User whose name they are listed under, IE you, any server that User is on carries over these same settings)
- Account
- Online Media Sources
- Authorized Devices
- Webhooks
- Home & Library Access
- PLEX WEB (These setting are for the Plex Web App that you are using. They exist locally on that instance of the Plex Web App)
- General
- Quality
- Debug
- Player
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- YOUR SERVER NAME
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- This is where your server setting are. (Anything NOT under here has nothing to do with your server)
- STATUS
- Dashboard
- Alerts
- Conversions
- SETTINGS
- General
- Remote Access
- Agents
- Library
- Plugins
- Network
- Transcoder
- Languages
- DLNA
- Scheduled Tasks
- Extras
- MANAGE
- Libraries
- Optimized Versions
- Live TV & DVR
- Troubleshooting
- Console
- Plugins
So, as you can see, they don’t toggle it BACK on. Any settings you change they do not see. You Turn off Live TV those users do not notice. It is still on for them unless THEY turn it off. A new user is created on your server, they do NOT default to your settings. They have no idea what those settings are.
I’m not sure what you are trying to say here, but the online Plex Web isn’t looking at any of the data on your Local Host Version of the Plex Web that is “Produced by your server”. It is using the Plex Server App information & the whole webpage is independent. Just look under Plex Web & you’ll the see version it’s using, Version 4.79.4 currently for the Web Hosted, 4.76.1 for my Local Host. That’s part of the reason some always use the Web Hosted Version, because it’s always going to be newer than what you have locally, & it’s updated in Real Time as changes are made. But either way the Local Host or the Web Host are both collecting the same data from the Server Runtime, they are not in any way talking to each other except indirectly through reading things altered in the Database on the server.
That ability has not stopped. You can still access it… If you CHOOSE not to because you don’t like part of the interface that’s you stopping, not you being prevented from using it. It’s really no different from me disliking the Roku interface & not using it. I can’t feel that I’m entitled to have the Roku app work like I want it to because it was “Promised to me that I’d be able to use other versions of the app”. I can still use it, I just don’t want to. Same for you…
You are free to not like it, & free to try to get it changed, but don’t misrepresent it to make a point that isn’t real.
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Plex will either 1) give us an option to disable it or 2) not do #1.
We can already disable the search results.
Un-pinning Discover is sufficient enough to not have to deal with it if you don’t want to.
Nobody is making anymore valid points to sway the Plex overlords and they will do as they please.
Go watch a movie.
Lets instead focus all our energy on getting the default remote stream quality set to original.
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Umm…
That’s the same thing…
As I just pointed out in another post, The ability to make a server change that affects accounts on it is exactly that. The non-managed user accounts are not SUPPOSED to be used for kids. It’s in the TOS. If they are using it in a way that is outside of how they agreed to use it, That’s their problem & no longer a Plex problem. It would be better for them to set up a Managed User Account for the kids. If for some reason that doesn’t work, find the problem with creating THAT & try to get THAT fixed.
You’re essentially asking for the ability to take kids into an Adult Dance Performance Club that requires them to be 18 or older, like the account they are using, but to have the ability to feel that you can safely prevent them from accidentally or intentionally seeing anything inappropriate. If you could do that then it could be done for an adult as well. In this example a wife might want to prevent her husband from seeing anything inappropriate if he were to go there, but as everyone inside is supposed to be an adult it is unreasonable to expect the Club to provide that ability, & really wrong for them to.
No, & though I’ve already provided clear evidence that they do not in any way fit the definition of Ads, That’s part of the FREE program. Nowhere in THOSE features that we agree that you are paying for, is one of the features a “No longer see ads”
By no means am I at least, I don’t know about others, telling you that.
I’m trying to understand how that hasn’t already been completed. You can disable it… Just like you do with Live TV… for YOUR ACCOUNT, & nothing more
Wanting Kids to use an account that the TOS says you must be
- GENERAL USER OBLIGATIONS . You represent that you are at least eighteen (18) years of age (or the legal age of majority, whichever is greater)
Any argument that includes “I need to protect the kids who are using a Non-Managed Account” is outside of the TOS. Plain & Simple. Having the ability to restrict an account to make it so that account isn’t able to turn it on… Does NOT make sense if the user you want to restrict is following the TOS obligations, so how can you expect that to be something they can do. That’d be no different from me wanting to make YOUR Netflix account not be able to see movie that have a rating higher than TV-Y7, It would be a violation of YOUR rights for ME to be able to do that.
Yes… The person who purchased it… Which would be the same login for everyone in their Home if set up properly…
No. The Adult Users that you created & gave to children… Against TOS… have to, sure… But if you set it up properly…
All “Mobile Devices” require a One-Time Payment, per App Store Account to use the app. Of course.
Great. You got that. It is in no way viewable on your server. But it STILL exists on the ACCOUNTS of every user who has not chosen to turn it off… As it should be
As it should be. YOU have control over how they use YOUR SERVER. This is unrelated. Because it has nothing to do with your server.
I’m curious where you are getting this definition…
Give it a rest Lost. You are just here to stir up trouble.
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Not a bit. I thought the feature was needed. But even after it was fixed, people are still fighting for more. I don’t understand that, but it’s fine. But I’m reading through the comments every so often to stay current, & I see untrue information being used to push an argument. So I respond because others reading through probably hear someone say that Plex Web uses the data from their local Plex Web & assume that it’s true or hear “Plex is preventing us from protecting our kids” & assume it’s true… But it’s not. I explain why with facts & sources.
A challenge for you: Give a reason the given solution is not acceptable without relying on those pieces of misinformation or false facts & I’ll have nothing to say about it, otherwise you have nothing to say that isn’t for the sole intent of misleading others reading this to trick them into supporting something. Which is the very definition of “Stirring up trouble” or
“the action of provoking unjust, lewd, immoral or unsavory behavior or urging someone to behave unlawfully, through the use of emotional hooks, slander, half-truths, or fallacies with the intention of causing unrest”
You just can’t let it go, can you?
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Holy sh*t, someone triggered LostOnTheLine hard.
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Oh god, please, there are no moderator that could stop him from talking to himself ?
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You mean BoldOnTheLine, don’t you? Oh no, I see… you are right, sorry: LostOnTheLine.
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vs
Sure seems like this is an ad, even from your concession…
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Actually I see only one person fighting now…
Just yesterday there was a guy yelling at himself in ten consecutive posts, getting more and more irate and no one even bit. It ended with him invoking Godwin on himself. Somehow I get reminded of that in this thread too now 
Sorry, can’t resist:
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Nobody gets the right to turn the feature off for anyone who uses their server. This is not a per server feature. It’s a per account feature. Now if they were giving this feature to managed users then yes you should retain control. As for all the people who have their own accounts that have shares from servers other than their own it’s still up to them to decide what turns on and off in their own accounts.
Displaying 3rd party services inside discover to tell you where you could watch X media IS ADVERTISING though. If you don’t like this then don’t use it. Turn search off and go on your merry way. There’s nothing more to discuss.
It’s beat, kick it out.
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LOL, classic!
My fix is to never use the Search feature or Discover. I have 2 people outside my home that occasionally use my Plex, my son and daughter. I doubt they use the search feature either. If you don’t use it, can it hurt you?
