Weekly review emails data leak

[OttoKerner]

@GuyGizmo

so long as I have “sync watched state and ratings” turned off, Plex has no idea what I’m watching. And they don’t know what’s in my media library no matter what. Is that correct?

That is correct.

@GuyGizmo

One important thing I still don’t understand, though: there’s a separate set of privacy settings in my Plex user profile page (that confusingly I can only access via the plex.tv website and not through the UI in the Plex desktop app) that let’s me decide whether friends are able to see what I’ve been watching, my ratings, and such. If I grant them this permission, how can they have any access to that information if “sync watched state and ratings” is turned off?

That’s a very good point! I will forward this to improve the user interface in this regard.

That being said, I can edit those privacy settings just fine in Plex for Desktop. Are you perhaps using Plex HTPC or some older or 3rd-party Plex client?
Or did you perhaps disable updates of Plex for Desktop?