Lets see…
Don’t forget the extra tracking and advertising included. Other than a huge list of 0.0.0.0 dnsmasq my router has, one can’t use ublock or no script on the Plex clients or server. :
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What extra, you can’t go more than 100% 
When the answer to
You’re saying you are gathering 100% data of 100% Plex Pass users to make such drastic decisions ?
is Yes. Source: Plugins removal? - #52 by coder-alpha
Btw, Plex learns what you watch is a feature… it’s right there in their promo video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0W-WvSaCQ14
That’s what happens when they raise private capital and the investors demand they go in a certain direction
SURE you can. The 3rd party providers will track now too. Plex privacy policy even warns so. 
Many of us who have been here a while remember the tech news announcements in 2014 when Kleiner Perkins came along. Some were optimistic. I wish I could be now as some were then.
Stop trying to understand Plex. It will drive you insane. LOL
@cayars Agreed. I also disabled this feature as I don’t need it in it’s current form. If it was a single portal to all my online sources/streaming services (like TiVo has tried to do), then I’d be on board. So if Plex could point at my Vudu library and have my owned Vudu movies show up in my Movies library with the movies on my server, then I’d use it. IMHO this is the way to go. That way I can have one interface to Netflix, Amazon, Vudu, MoviesAnywhere, etc rather than going to each service individually. Plus I don’t have to store anything locally which means I no longer have to worry about ever expanding storage needs and backups.
As I think more about this offering… Plex is indeed trying to be more of a one stop media shop…
… which I find ironic… as I use a Roku, which, for the most part already does all of this before I press the Plex button. [customized and not curated, I might add]
For the most part, don’t most of our client devices offer the same? Would I want to use Plex which is trying to cover several bases, or would I want to back up a step or two and use an app specifically built for the function?
Yea, for the most part devices have you covered with tons of different apps you can load and choose what types of content interest you. But not with PMP 
You don’t need to leave the device and go to a computer to login to an account in order to turn a feature on/off. 
There are certainly better news & podcast apps. Web Shows right now is no better than your channels on YouTube but maybe that will get better overtime.
Worse actually. Don’t forget this tidbit.
Well I like 2 week old News so…
‘Your media your way’ I believe is how it goes. It most certainly is a media server, first foremost and last. The rest of it are bullets for a marketing slick. I think the point people are responding to is the these web shows were already available. It was called ‘watch later’. The removal of personal choice for controlled content deviates from this, thus getting the reaction, not the feature itself.
Amen. YouTube already has those ■■■■■■ shows AND is reliable. What a waste of development time…
I don’t mind the idea of it at all. I’d love to have a single hub where all my new shows and movies from all sources get combined into one “on deck” that I can work through.
The problem with web shows is the implementation. Out of 70 or so shows in the curated list, there’s only one that overlaps with my ~100 YouTube subscriptions. Since I’m already gonna have to go to YouTube to watch all my other favorite shows, I’m not going to use Plex for the one that it happens to have. Not out of spite or anything like other posters, but just because if I’m already making the trip why bother.
Plex did it right for Podcasts. There’s no curation whatsoever, every podcast I’m aware of shows up in the list. So now I use Plex as my source for podcasts. That’s a win for me and for Plex because now I don’t have to go anywhere else.
If Web Shows was just a way for me to link my YouTube account to Plex and see new posts from my subscriptions on the dashboard, I would 100% be using it. As it stands, it has the same problem plugins had before it. It’s got some small percentage of the content I’m interested in, but I can go elsewhere and get 100% of it, so I’m going to do that.
There is no way to manage the content sources, so it’s just not useful and full of junk I don’t want. Why not just enable adding sources to a library? Sources could be of type file folder, RSS, Curated Plex Provider, or playlist, etc…
Thanks a lot people… this thread has pretty much confirmed what my thoughts have been after these past couple announcements; that all my time and effort in installing and learning how to use Plex has largely been a waste of my time. 
Guess now I need to go check out this Emby that several have mentioned.
That is actually the one statement that sums up most work Plex did over the last years nicely.
And why so many have followed you over to the “other” media server option.
I liked the idea of Webshows.
But it’s a bit of a fail to me too. It has not played for more than a few seconds at a time due to buffering (perhaps because I’m in Australia) and the content isn’t so compelling that I feel the need to wait it out.
I would agree with everyone that it is a waste, UNLESS it is to try and prepare themselves for the onslaught of streaming services that are about to hit the internet.i.e., Marvel, ABC, etc.
Why not try and setup streaming functions and get the bugs out using useless info streams, with the idea in the future to login and stream from major (I mean important) networks all from one app.
