I do not appreciate how plex seems to keep adding things to my home that are not my media or anything to do with it, and frankly I find this entire angle on the app offensive and disappointing.
I have plex to organize and play my media. Plex getting its fingers in streaming and pushing other services makes it a competitor to streaming my personal media and makes me, the user and plex pass owner, just more eyeballs to sell and not the real customer of the project. That is not in any way an acceptable direction.
You see problems even just in the way plex handles subtitles where it tries much harder to go to services and push subtitles regardless of whether theyâre useful, while being totally incompetent and ridiculously unfeatured on local subtitles.
My media isnât some trivial also-junk to push out of the way. Itâs the whole point of having plex installed. I shouldnât have to keep looking for ways to remove junk someone else shoved in my media.
i second this.
please focus on making media playback better and not streaming services.
if you do want to have your side projects - dont auto enable them. advise the paying users of a new function, document how they work and how to enable them. that way its up to the end user to manage.
Thatâs great for you but then we get to explain to a lot of people that arenât so tech savvy how âplex-moviesâ isnât my movies etc and you have to turn yet one more thing on my media server off thatâs not really my media server.
Us knowing how to turn it off isnât the issue. but you already know this from all the other threads.
Itâs the why arenât we able to control the media we share with OUR users (not plexâs) Is the issue.
My Aunt Gladys is 103 years old (later this month). I had to talk a Cousin through turning off âOnline Media Sourcesâ for her when a Little Old Woman complained about Blasting Audio on The Same Commercials over and over again she never used to see on âMy Serverâ.
Had there not been a Cousin available, Iâd have driven the 700 Mile Round Trip to do it for her - Gleefully ('cause I love her) - To Fix Plexâs overbearing inconsideration for Server Owners and THEIR Users. Aunt Gladys is MINE - NOT Plexâs!
I KNOW Movies and TV Shows is Plex! Aunt Gladys doesnât, nor does she know how to turn it off. She STILL doesnât know what happened, but she says sheâs happy I took those commercials off My Server - she didnât like them at all. <âwhat does that tell ya?
Thatâs NOT how you talk to users already wiffed - and if they werenât they are now. If you worked for me youâd be looking for new job.
Why are you a moderator again? You did not contribute one iota to a very valid point of discussion but instead chose to mock a paying customer. You make Plex look bad for allowing you to retain moderator status.
Just to add my voice of discontent here, we donât appreciate this online pushing of third party content either in my household. To re-iterate others the whole point of us using Plex was to have control over our own content, we do not want, and ever want âfreeâ content full of ads.
And this is exactly why despite Plex constantly telling us that HOME users are purely designed for people who live in the same house as us I really donât care. The fact is that for anyone in my Plex home I turn this stuff off for them.
I did not realise that when I turned it off (for what I thought was my server), I was in fact only turning it off for me.
Thatâs a real issue if you have less techy family members using your server. In my case that includes young nieces who I go to great lengths to ensure only get age-appropriate content. If this means they have been able to access all the online content (incl, horror etc) for the last couple of days, I will be very upset; Deal breaker upset.
Uh, wow this is how a moderator represents a business to paying customers?
I (most others probably) get it is easy to disable, that was not the point. The point is when a company has other stakeholders they have to focus on them as well and now it seems like the real stake holders are not Plex Users for home media but corporate entities. Those entities seem to be the focus of Plex now and not we who use it for home media, you know the ORIGINAL reason for Plex and the ORIGINAL base who supported Plex which got the company to this stage.
I âlikedâ your post because I thought this switched it off for the server.
I switched it off for âmy serverâ immediately on the day of launch to protect my young nieces and now I realise it did nothing to protect them at all.
That is not a solution because you have to go turn off every new garbage they add, because everything they add they enable by default. Because they do not care about their paying customers. I agree with everything the OP said. I paid for this, I do not want someone else deciding what I see on my screen.
I never want to see anything that is not on my server or a server I have specifically linked to. Period. Never. I want two options when I login, âTVâ and âMoviesâ. Thatâs is all I ever want to see. Plex doesnât care what I want, and makes what I want impossible because they âknow best.â
And it is a support nightmare for the people in my family who get this shovel ware forced on them and have no idea how to disable it, how to avoid it, or what it even is.
Itâs funny how little control Plex allows you of your own server, isnât it? I mean funny in the âHa ha, you thought Facebook was obnoxious? Hold my beer!â sort of way.
Exactly. Flag that comment as inappropriate and maybe get some attention. Talk about condescension! This person should not be allowed to post in public with that attitude.
