Jellyfin is more then good enough. There’s many advanced features that it can do that Plex can’t (and just apparently refuses like transcoding hybrid files, which is achievable via ffmpeg)
If you’re an Apple user especially Jellyfin is actually superior.
The only thing it lacks is client support but if you’re an Apple person the official Plex app is hot doodoo at best and you’re probably using infuse already anyways.
Well then I will try it out and report back. Thanks @johnblaze00
@johnblaze00
Jellyfin works great haven’t had any issues so far. I’ll continue testing and start allowing users to transition then sunset Plex.
I remember firing some warning shots during testing for Discovery regarding auto enrol features vs privacy of users and I said let’s see how it plays out…
So it’s been almost a week now. Will the only response we can expect from a Plex employee effectively be “working as intended” followed by silence? Serious concerns have been raised here over privacy, the automatic opting-in of these new options, and the potential violation of the GDPR, and we would like an official response to these concerns.
Why would a median streaming/data mining company at this point care or apologize for mining said data? lol
Plex priority clearly isn’t media management or playback anymore.
not a frequent commenter but longtime plex subscriber. i don’t host a single privacy-sensitive thing on my plex and i still find this extremely disturbing. thinking this should be prioritized above any of the existing inefficiencies and issues with the platform’s practical application is the strangest element for sure.
this should be hard-limited to avoid anything hosted on a server at a bare minimum. if you’re going to be harvesting and blatantly distributing watch data, you should at least be limiting it to titles that are out in the open.
i pay for the yearly pass because i prefer to support this platform long term, and it comes due in less than a month. i’m gonna be looking for a pretty solid apology to keep me from exploring other platforms.
Why in the world did Plex think to spend dev time/resources/money on making Plex a “social network” is beyond me…that’s the last thing they needed to add!
Looks like I’ll finally be moving to Jellyfin. I’ve been happy to support Plex and it always “just worked.” Never that much of an issue.
But now finding out I have to log in to the web app to change anything?? Never would’ve even occurred to me. I tried going to account settings on my local side and it just flat out doesn’t work.
I swear to God, not everything needs to be “social!” and have more and more crammed into it. It was plenty good enough as is and you’ve got a great amount of paid support, why look a gift horse in the mouth, Plex??
I’ve installed Emby and am going to switch over.
Plex has well and truly jumped the shark. Drifting further and further from what they used to be good at.
Wow. Just looking at this post and the steps required to turn-off/opt-out of stuff that we didn’t turn on nor enable is really messed up.
“Hey we signed you guys up for a bunch of stuff that differs greatly from the main reason all of you are here! It is totally cool and you are going to love it! And yes, we turned all of it on for you by default and put a bunch of steps in the way of you turning it off! (And some of it you can’t turn off!!)” -Plex
Good heavens this was a colossally misguided feature roll-out. Collecting everyone’s watch history and defaulting to broadcasting that to everyone else was about as boneheaded of a mistake as I could possibly imagine. You don’t just turn something like that on without informing a user and making sure they have the opportunity to stop it before it starts. It’s certainly illegal in many jurisdictions. I hope Plex rapidly comes to their senses here and fixes their approach to rolling out such a massive privacy invading feature. This could have very real world consequences for people in many parts of the world. For example if you are in Germany where anything N@zi related is illegal, and perhaps you were researching Triumph of the Will or something.
This is an example of why I refuse to “Claim” my server and link it to an online account, even though I have purchased Plex Pass to support the company. I knew something like this would eventually happen.
There’s a lot of very popular YouTubers who are former sponsors of yours that haven’t been kind to you over the last year so
I have a strange feeling they, and their millions of followers will not look upon this decision as kindly as we have LOL
Been a PlexPass subscriber for about 10 years now, and a member and a supporter of Plex for much longer.
This is frankly a disaster and shambles of a roll-out. A lot of the privacy settings in question have been included over the years as opt-out-by-default, which is frankly anti-user and privacy-hostile. Then modifying how library sharing works to be shoe-horned into a befuddling friends feature, which at best is seen as a UI-only change by most Plex media server admins.
Finally, these two changes are then leveraged into a share-by-default viewing history feature amongst friends is just unacceptable and user-hostile.
Many administrators update their Plex media servers in some (semi-)automated manner, many Plex players update themselves automatically. Given this and the above, it’s really hard to take any assurances from Plex seriously. Between internal telemetry and information from other platforms, Plex would know most users don’t even know, or see these “opt-out” features.
So turning on view history, by default, to share amongst friends and then absolving yourselves by saying that users can turn it off, (which Plex knows most users won’t do) and then finally falling back to the ol’ terms of service allows us to do this argument.
It’s rather clear at this point that Plex wants to engage in anti-privacy, anti-user “features” in the name of becoming an enshittified “platform” rather than the fantastic application it used to be.
I’ve had to previously neuter Plex’s ability to pull metadata from my Plex Media server, and thankfully I’ve broadly kept track of these changes and disabled them as they come up. However, I know, Plex knows and most IT-savvy people know that most admins and users won’t do this, or know these features exist and have been enabled for them.
Unless this gets retracted really quickly, an apology issued and a plan to address the poor roll-out of “features” many users/admins clearly aren’t asking for, I’ll be cancelling my PlexPass before the next billing cycle and looking to contribute (with code & cash) to competitors such as Jellyfin.
@plex - you need to roll this update back. This is awful, I really question the decision making going on there these days. Unwind this turd of a feature that no one asked for, and reintroduce it as an opt-in later or never.
This is a unwanted update, your user base has no interest in this, it’s a violation of privacy please roll it back and listen to your customers.
Imagine being a teenager or young adult watching Plex going through some personal mental health issues and themes such as lgbtq+, trans, drugs or documentary’s on explicit topics get outted to parents or other family members.
How is this okay? How is this not opt in?
As everyone else has already said it is unacceptable that this feature is not opt-in only. I don’t want to broadcast everything I watch to my friends and family, and plex doing so without asking me first is obtrusive and rude.
Same here. Resubscribed me to all of the sales and marketing emails after previously opting-out.
