Guh! Subscribe OR activate…? Wish I knew that a long time ago. Thought it was Subscribe to Plex Pass then Activate each device for $5 a pop.
I came here yesterday believing I needed to buy a lifetime subscription in order to stream to my mobile devices… Turns out it’s only $5 to Apple and $5 to Play store and I’m set… So much better than $100+ 
Thanks
perhaps you should familiarize yourself with plex extensive help and documentation.
https://support.plex.tv/articles/202526943-plex-free-vs-paid/
https://support.plex.tv/articles/categories/intro-to-plex/system-requirements/
https://support.plex.tv/articles/categories/intro-to-plex/plex-pass-subscriptions/
if your mobile device has a web browser, you can use that too, although web browsers make crappy media players and tend to cause lots of transcoding load on the server.
If by “Extensive help and documentation” you mean “Go ask on the forum” yeah, I’m here now and thanks for all the assistance! 
As for mobiles, I wanted that for a long time but I have learned to live without it. I now use my chill time to NOT watch movies/shows or listen to music. I have so many consoles and so many media players (Shield, Apple TV etc) and so many laptops that outside and the bathroom are the only places in my house where I can’t access my media. To do so would mean charging my laptop in advance (and probably dust it off while I wait 
) so I just don’t bother.
$5, though, is not a lot to ask. Bye bye silence on the porch from now on
TechnoJunky referred to the support articles – some of those have been linked above; find below the link to the overview:
https://support.plex.tv/articles/
I’m guessing you don’t have more than a few people you share with. It can get pretty cumbersome to explain that you don’t have commercials, plex-movies is not my movies etc. and no, most of us (least that have been here awhile) are actually here to present their libraries in the manner they chose. As they’re my users and I’m the admin, I’m probably going to have a better handle on what’s appropriate etc. more definitely does not always = better.
But you are. It’s not one of your libraries 
I’m at about 15 or so. Most of them fall within my age range, so wrapping our heads around this isn’t that difficult. I’ve only had to explain this to my Mom, and she loves it.
that’s exactly my point, it’s not my library but it’s my media server and Id prefer to be the admin of my media server and decide what media gets shown to who and what doesn’t. I think it’s a pretty reasonable expectation, “Your media your way” I believe was the motto.
Doesn’t matter, I understand we aren’t getting it and it’s up to me to decide whether it works for me or not.
hey that’s great news 
Actually its up to every Plex user to decide if it works for them or not. If not, they can disable it. One of “your” users may actually not mind the content. Who are you to decide 
lol I’m the guy serving the media to them. I’m exactly the person to decide, hence my media server.
If I was to hosting something online to my friends and family and a 3rd party was going to arbitrarily add content to that regardless of my wishes or knowing who the audience is absurd.
Ridiculous argument but have to admit made me laugh. So thanks for that.
New motto idea- “your media, plus whatever we want to add, who are you to decide?”
How’s that?
They are everywhere I will agree.
You realize that a lot of people share libraries with multiple servers. So in your world, which server admin would win, if allowed to shut off these features for users?
Second, one of your users may love the new features. Who are you to decide for them? Oh I already asked that, and you ignored that part.
Lastly, I think you have a misunderstanding of who is a customer of who. “Your” users who share your libraries are Plex customers who just happen to access your libraries, and do so because that’s a feature of Plex. And they can simply disable the added features if they don’t like it. And again, if they do like it in addition to your media too … that’s Plex Their Way.
Anyhow these circular arguments are tiresome. Its quite easy to disable. There are also other media solutions if you’re that outraged at having access to more media.
For the record I’m not a fan of online media sources, and they are all disabled in my account. The people I share my libraries with have been told how to disable them if they please. I haven’t heard from any of them and I don’t really care if they are watching the ad supported media. Why would I care? They are also streaming from my box too. Either way its their business.
That is actually pretty funny, and kind of insightful.
Here is the thing, YOU may host a server, and it may be shared to other people.
These people use plex client apps, but may or may not have their own server.
They may also have MULTIPLE servers they connect to.
These online media sources are part of the CLIENT, so the user of that client should have the final choice of what they want to see or not see.
What do you suggest happens if you could hypothetically globally turn off plex media sources for all your users, but you have users that connect to ANOTHER server that has plex media servers globally turned ON.
Heck, what would you expect to happen if YOU connected to SOMEONE else’s server, and they disabled YOUR plex media sources (and you wanted them on).
Jinx
Second, one of your users may love the new features. Who are you to decide for them? Oh I already asked that, and you ignored that part.
I didn’t ignore that part, I answered it directly, You simply aren’t getting it or choosing to ignore the answer. There’s no other way I can put it, you’re going to regurgitate the same thing yet again and on we go round 4.
I’ll try it this way and see if it works- These are MY media server users- they are NOT plex customers. I’m the plex customer. I want to be the admin of my media server and yes decide what my parents, friends, their children can see and what they can’t see.
It was like this at one point but I get it, thats changed. Plex sees them as a potential revenue stream and it’s up to me to decide whether this works for me or not. That said, I dont think my opinion is unreasonable no matter how many times you infer that it is.
I dont even care about the streaming services, I might even enable it for some of my users if I had the choice. I just wished I still had the choice to decide.
Well you are wrong, but you can solve this simply by making them home users and then you CAN disable what you want for them. Problem solved!
Unfortunately, that is simply not the reality of it.
You can wish it was. You can complain it isn’t. Or you can accept the fact that plex has long ago co-opted ‘your’ users and made EVERYONE “PLEX’s” users.
So you want your parents, friends and their children to be at the tyrannical mercy of your almighty whim.
They are not able to make their own choice from other options that plex has provided outside of your specific server.
Again, what happens when your parents/friends decide to have their own server that globally enables your much hated plex online sources?
here is the TLDR; kids version:
Also, for everyone that hates plex, please go here @ GitHub - jellyfin/jellyfin: The Free Software Media System and start submitting code to make jellyfin better than plex and emby, combined.
You can, for up to 14 of them.
Unfortunately, that is simply not the reality of it.
You can wish it was. You can complain it isn’t. Or you can accept the fact that plex has long ago co-opted ‘your’ users and made EVERYONE “PLEX’s” users.
yes agreed, I said as much
So you want your parents, friends and their children to be at the tyrannical mercy of your almighty whim.
Yea totally. Man was I wrong, you make an excellent point. Especially the name calling, that really resonated with me. 
I am not sure how that is name calling, but sorry if you took offense. I just call it how I see it.
You want to take the choice from your users for content that is outside your control.
Not sure how that isn’t the hallmark of a tyrant.
Perhaps dictator is a more acceptable term?
You want to control your server. As do I and everyone else.
Plex has added a layer outside of our specific servers which provides content out of our control.
I get it. I just don’t agree with someone else deciding for me, just because I connect to their server.
