I thought maybe it’s an error - disabled online service things have shown up before and it was a bug - so I waited a day and restarted the app but it’s still there.
It hasn’t been there until now… there used to only be 2 rows (not counting the Featured Videos row). It was only Media Libraries and Known For rows (and the filmography button). The “Movies and Shows on Plex” for their online streaming service listings did not previously exist if all online services were disabled - maybe it showed if Plex Movies and Shows was enabled (would make sense), but I’ve had all online services disabled since it was introduced.
Personally I like the Known For row and Filmography buttons.
FYI… I’m on android and thankfully the legacy app does not see this advertisement section so I went and installed the newer version 2025.29 and it’s there.
Definitely feels intentional then. If so that’d be another enshittification flag - create a useful function, get customers used to it, then shoehorn in the paid content\ads.
I’m hoping it’s a setting on the Plex service side (because it’s clearly service side, not app side) that just isn’t reading our setting that it should be turned off but I’m not holding my breath.
