It’s on the bundled web app too (PMS 1.32.7.7621). Select anyone of these icons and it will open the privacy settings modal.
I can only point you to my screenshots. That is exactly what I see in each case. 1.32.7.7621.
One more in case the edit button functions differently in each case. There literally is no My Watch History or My Watch List shown:
It really doesn’t matter how you try to spin this. Its some BS. Yet another stupid idea no one asked for implemented in the dumbest most annoying way possible. It’s already been stated but things like this should be OPT IN, not OPT OUT. Guess its time to switch over fulltime to Jellyfin. It really is a shame the folks running the show keep trying to make this software into something it was never supposed to be, and then wonder why changes like this piss everyone off. But hey, I got a decade out of it.
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And your screenshot of your profile have the icons next to the words “My Watch History” and the other hubs.
Please re-read my message. The screenshot showing those icons was via plex.tv. Locally it looks like the other screenshots wheren those things are not present.
http://localhost:32400/web/index.html#!/profile vs http://localhost:32400/web/index.html#!/profile/edit
Thanks Kilgry, but I think my broader concern is that it just for my profile right, not the server itself? Will this stop my users sharing their usage of my sever to their friends and so on?
Also everything was disabled for ‘managed accounts’, I guess that doesn’t mean what I thought it did.
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It doesn’t show on the older builds, Plex Web Version 4.108.0.
If you see this on your Profile page
then there is almost no need for concern.
The badge encircled in red only appears if watch state sync is disabled.
And if that is disabled, then plex.tv will get no watch data from any of your own Plex servers.
Then it has only the activity on your Universal Watchlist and what you play on https://watch.plex.tv
(The numbers above it being all zero further confirm that watch state sync never was enabled, either.)
Just making my first comment to mention how much I hate this feature. I’m actually shocked this was rolled out to everyone without a clear active option to the server owner to opt-out when logging into Plex upon launch. If there was an option to opt out of sync state, it wasn’t clear that people would be notified of watch stats…
Why alienate your users like this?? Just to pump some adoption metrics post-launch? I hate it when companies take the ostrich-in-sand approach when clearly they didn’t understand the user base that supports Plex.
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I have provided screenshots of both and what you think is there is not there in either. I’m really struggling to see the confusion here. The Discover page is different too. Shows the People tab on plex.tv but not on local.
Local:
plex.tv:
If you see this on your Profile page
then there is almost no need for concern.
I have far less concern NOW after turning it off. That still doesn’t excuse that you were emailing people telling them what I was watching without a single bit of active input or consent from me.
I’ll be turning Discover and Watchlists off now too as I no longer trust Plex with any of this stuff. I defended Discover and defended Plex’s intentions but I can’t see me ever defending Plex again.
It isn’t that this stuff has been added that has rankled me. I get that Plex need to expand and make new income streams. It’s how it was all done without even the slightest whiff of my consent or informing me at any point. That shows a deeply troubling direction the company is going in. One that depends on trust you’ve now thoroughly burned.
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I don’t think this is true. I (my own user) have not enabled any of this. I can see the badge your screenshot shows.
But a couple of hours ago I got an email with watch statistics of other users, of media they watched from my server.
The email is not about your activity. It is about activity of other users.
i.e. those with their own plex.tv accounts.
You must be joking or are intentionally being obtuse. On the page you referenced you can opt out of getting an email about your FRIENDS activity, but NOT them getting an email with your own activity. Do you see the problem there?
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Yes, I understand that.
I was hoping that me, as the server owner, could prevent those statistics about my media from reaching Plex’ servers.
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There’s a whole lot of being intentionally obtuse from Plex today. I note that OttoKerner just stopped bothering to reply when I pointed out that what he was saying was provably untrue.
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I’m still looking at that screenshot and still can’t see the icons. Can you point them out to me? Here’s the screenshot again:
And when I click edit:
I’m not trying to be difficult here, just trying to understand what I’m doing wrong.
And just to confirm the server version:
These are not shown when I open the page when navigating to my Plex instance directly. When I go to the edit profile page through plex.tv they are visible.
Just like in Ted_C’s screenshots.
Well now I am going through all the settings possible on both the plex.tv instance and local to see what is missing. Already found at least one.
That is present on the site but not local under Online Media Sources.
Check all your settings on both.
