Stop showing things like “Trending on…” services I don’t have. There is no point unless you’re being paid to promote commercial services. If that’s the case give us an option. I will NOT tolerate forced content that I cannot control, period.
I’m quite serious. Forced content is a perfect reason to drop Plex.
As a long-term Plex user with significant time and money in my collection pushing irrelevant services is uncalled for and unacceptable.
Have you configured „your streaming services“?
I’ve just checked and with Discover enabled, Plex will show me some additional hubs on my Home Screen (and the discover page), but only for the services I’ve selected in the first place. I cannot currently reproduce it showing any other content from other streaming providers.
Thank you for the reply. Yes, all the streaming services are disabled. I don’t have any paid subscriptions. However Apple TV in particular shows-up. Hence my guess it’s “paid promotion”.
Have cleared cookies, etc.
Enable / disable makes no difference. If it’s supposed to be controlled by Streaming Services settings there a bug or data problem.
Thanks again.
I guess this might be the default behavior if you’re using Discover (having enabled the online media source option and the Discover section being pinned to the sidebar).
If you don’t want to see/use it at all you should be able to disable the Discover feature for good.
All Online Media Sources and Streaming Services are disabled. However “Trending on Apple TV” still appears.
That is simply unacceptable and must be fixed or removed. It is MY server and my content and I will NOT put up with forced promotion of services I’ll never use. And at this point that is what it appears to be.
I cannot find any way to disable Discover on the server.
Question: How does one actually submit a Bug to the Plex folks? Seems they don’t pay attention to Forums, make users support each other, and shove whatever “features” they want down our throats.
Am seriously considering dumping Plex after 8 years for a different platform. A plethora of bells 'n whistles, many pretty useless, and now this.
set Settings > Online Media Sources → Discover > Discover Source to Disabled
Alternatively… if you still want to use Discover, simply unpinning the Discover source from the sidebar should also do the trick and remove any related hubs from the home screen.
During my test, the change was immediate – if not, reloading the web app might do the trick.
It reads “… signed-in with your account”. Does that mean my children, who have their own account, will see Discover anyway? There’s no way to disable it for the entire server?
The commercialization of Plex is becoming a serious problem. This is NOT what I signed-up for.
And again, is there no way to actually communicate with the Plex folks?
Thanks for your time.
It’s not a server feature but linked to your account (or theirs respectively).
Just the forum – but no direct way to direct conversation
Can you show a screenshot of the entire page?
Can you post the URL when clicking on the “Trending on Apple TV” header?
The URL is (http://rockplex:32400/web/index.html#!/media/tv.plex.provider.discover?key=%2Fhubs%2Fsections%2Fhome%2Ftrend-apple-itunes%3FcontentDirectoryID%3Dhome&pageType=list&source=home&context=source%3Ahub.home.trend-apple-itunes~15)
The only way to make it go away, on my account only I guess, is to disable Discover entirely.
Being an engineer I could believe it’s a simple bug. But “grouch” me doesn’t think so.
I already have discover disable completly and trending Trailers and trending on apple tv still shows on android Devices.
How so? By unpinning the section from your sidebar menu or disabling the online media source option?
If you already had disabled the online media source… can you force-quit the Android client and verify the hub is still showing after restarting it? (could be there’s some caching in the app)
This is probably a dead post but just in case someone else comes looking, a temporary solution at least is to disable all discovery services on the plex web app, then on your android device SIGN OUT of plex entirely through the options, then re-link to your plex account. This at least for the time being has removed discovery items from my home screen.
Very helpful, thank you!
I’m sure that it’s entirely coincidence that “Trending on Apple” is one of two settings, out of a multitude of Discover services and various other settings, that doesn’t update immediately…I’m so ridiculously disappointed in myself for spending money on this app. Ads that don’t go away, a Tuner service that gobbles up resources despite being disabled, and an entirely unresponsive Product team. Sweet.
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