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…

I’m curious what the real reason for adding such an unwanted feature would be. I think @lizardfish is right in their post . My guess is that they expect this feature to drive engagement with the AVOD area of their platform. Plex licenses some content from a big tv/film studio, user gets an email…

The legal ramifications of this action by Plex could be substantial - certainly I would hope that their legal folks double and triple checked that their actions here would be ok, but auto-opting customers into sharing data without their direct consent, on its face, violates a ton of laws, many of wh…

This feature is garbage and should never have been opted in by default to share or receive information like this. As someone that works for a SAAS company and regularly needs to navigate privacy policies and feature sets, this is truly appalling.

Just want to add my voice as a plex pass lifetime subscriber that I loathe this feature and want plex to walk it back. my friends who use my server also were shocked to start getting emails of what I watched. Nobody wants this. The discover tab in plex isn’t so bad, showing what’s on their "watch l…

I briefly skimmed this whole comment section to try to understand more about this, however my conclusion is that it doesn’t matter what was “intended” from this feature, what matters is what actually happened. What actually happened is that a lot of people including myself had their privacy breache…

I dont normally post in the Plex forums, but I had to log in JUST to voice my opinion on this new “feature”. Like others here, I opened my email in the last week to find unsolicited emails detailing other users watch history, which is absolutely UNACCEPTABLE. Then, I go in to find all email sub…

[image] lizardfish: It’s pretty concerning that Plex doesn’t understand this. It’s an extremely well-trodden and well-understood part of software/data engineering. If you’re going to collect user activity, obtain a well-informed opt-in, do it as anonymously as possible, do it quietly, and defini…

I will be very surprised if this does not result in legal action against Plex of some sort…

What I don’t understand is that I’ve been getting Plex “Week in Review” emails since December 2022. I don’t know if these were just because I was a server admin but it was showing me content that my “friends” watched that definitely isn’t even on my server! “Another week, another fresh delivery of…

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almendsr November 28, 2023, 7:40pm 250

this is horrifying. wth Plex! This is disturbing in so many ways.

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