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 never received, saw, nor clicked on that banner, yet my settings were changed.

Honestly, it probably wouldn’t be nearly as bad if Plex hadn’t decided to send emails to all your friends showing your watch history. Yeah, they would still be able to see it, but would need to go into the website to do that (which most casual users probably aren’t going to do). But just blatantly…

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To me, it reads as if when you hit “finish,” it is applying all those settings to what is currently displayed FROM private. I had the same defaults applied and all of that should default to PRIVATE when I hit finish and it should be completely brain dead simple.

Respectfully this is BS. I’ve never changed or even looked at these settings and NONE of them were set to private

I am very frustrated that this was done. this is personal information and should not be shared in this fashion. you have broken the trust of your users Plex!

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Voidths November 29, 2023, 8:31pm 423

It probably would have helped if they didn’t auto change people you invited to share media with into friends. I never saw anything about approving that from happening.

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