I’ve been a Plexpass life member for decades now. And these emails will finish that. It is the embodiment of enshitification of a good product. Who in their right mind thought it would be a good idea to store this data in Plex databases and do anything with it?. There is a reason we are selfhosting…

[image] blim5001: even though I had set every discover setting I could find to private Those emails contain the media usage of your “Plex friends”, not that of yourself. If you set your media history to “private”, it doesn’t affect the same setting in your friend’s accounts. These emails ar…

Just to make sure: opting IN to marketing emails is just the icing on the cake here. That’s a “bad thing” to do. But I’m even more upset by the fact that Plex has this data AT ALL and chose to share what I watch with friends of mine. And what they watch with me!!! That means; no other explanation …

It was more so that all my email preferences got re-enabled without me doing it. Which imo should not have happened. As I had previously unsubscribed to all emails…

[image] blim5001: Which imo should not have happened. As far as I’m aware, this is currently under investigation, it should not have happened.

[image] menem: But I’m even more upset by the fact that Plex has this data AT ALL and chose to share what I watch with friends of mine. And what they watch with me!!! These mails only contain activity of Plex friends, who chose to keep their media usage not private. “Private” is the default,…

Again, I’m a decades old Plex pass user, never had these emails, never changed such settings. This is recent and a definite change from before. Besides, why have a choice “private or not” just keep it private and don’t create options or features that need things to “not be private” I’m sick of all …

This feature needs to go away immediately. A server owner should be able to COMPLETELY disable sharing of any media watched on that server. I’m absolutely disgusted by plex.

[image] OttoKerner: “Private” is the default, btw. It is, sort of… except when the popup window comes up, that does not default to private, so it is quite easy for users to enable it without realising.

[image] OttoKerner: These mails only contain activity of Plex friends, who chose to keep their media usage not private. “Private” is the default, btw… “Private” is NOT the default, the default is “Friends”. If the default should have been “Private” instead, that’s another ■■■■■■ by Plex obv…

Weekly review emails data leak

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aphyr November 21, 2023, 4:09pm 17

I wonder how many people just had their week’s porn selections emailed to their Plex friends. I just got an email about a friend’s watching habits which he definitely didn’t want to share. He insists he’s never opted in to any data sharing, but… it went out anyway.

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