Aunt Gladys was still chasing boys (in their 70s) when she was in her 70s - 30 years ago, but I don’t think Plex could outsource a help desk that would help her far enough off-planet once they tried that for a few minutes.
Plex and their team of developers don’t have an Aunt Gladys figured into their complex plan. <—or there’s not enough of them to matter when the goal is getting that advertising in front of as many eyeballs as possible, irregardless of what it does to the Family Unit.
Probably works out fine in most cases and that’s all Plex cares about.
Oh I would have agreed (and did) when Plex was great (a couple of years ago). The idea that you could set something up for your elderly relatives to share videos photos and such for their enjoyment, even though they were totally non-tech.
Then Plex got greedy and decided it wanted to be a service provider and all of a sudden the media server admins no longer had control of all of the content provided to their users, that Plex had inserted themselves into the mix with all kinds of shows not knowing anything about the type of users they were making recommendations to.
To live in that perfect world that you proclaim… it must be nice!
Thanks for the complement, I know i’m perfect. Just ask me.
Please explain were Plex Inc are making money from a ad sponsored Free content, other than creating a possible feature that some subscribers were asking to happen?
hahahahaha, if you don’t think Plex is making money off of that then I feel sorry for you. IMO it’s the entire reason they got rid of plug-ins and said it was “because nobody really uses them” give me a break.
Plex stands to make a LOT of money from those ads for both them and their ‘partners’.
I don’t have a problem with that so long as I don’t have to participate. Non participation was easy for me - not so much for my users (the ones that didn’t want it - some do - exactly what Plex is hoping for).
Advertising is big bidness.
Crackle isn’t in it for the Chicks, but I’ll bet there are more than a few scantily-clad-representatives of same on the Yachts Crackle Execs tool around the tropics in.
You could google Crackle Profits - to get an idea of what advertising can do to create a pile of money. I’m encoding Looney Tunes. I’m busy…lol
If this is going to turn into a topic where folks just passive/aggressively attack each other I am going to close it.
Yes we make a some money from advertising. Part goes to us part goes to the content provider who gave us streaming rights to their movie/show. Same sort thing you might find on Roku’s free movie service for example.
I appreciate that some folks family members are technically challenged. Personally for those folks who I don’t want as managed in my Plex Home I created their Plex accounts for them. Gmail has a great feature where you can create a custom email on the fly by adding +something that will go to your inbox. Like if my email was BigWheel@gmail.com I created a Plex account with email BigWheel+mom@gmail.com and use that for my mom’s.
I understand the desire for some sort of popup up like “We have new feature X would you like to enable it Yes/No/More Info”. Something I am asking for, but I cannot promise.
i actually didn’t know about that google feature, thanks, i learned a new thing today. i promise not to passively aggressively spam you or your mom’s inbox.
