I was just looking over the “Opt-Out Privacy Choices” page and at first was happy to see “No” and “All No” checks at the top of the page. As I was scrolling through the list of vendors though I noticed 4 seemingly random ones were set to ‘Yes’. I sure as hell didn’t enable them, so who did?..
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Thanks for the reminder. I scanned mine, and I see 3 vendors enabled for myself as well:
Amplified IntelligenceTechnologies
Magnite CTV, Inc
MyCast TV Ltd.
Um, why the ****ity **** does Plex need this many godamned vendors in the first place?
Anyhow, based on the info on the page, it sounds like checking the box near the top in blue labeled “All No” means they cannot share any of your info, everything below should be ignored even if any of them get turned on to “yes”. Not that I trust this is the actual behavior, but the phrasing seems to indicate a legal promise to not sell your info. If it turns out that hitting “All no” here, and still having our info sold, might be actionable.
Still scary that anyone is turned on, but I’ll bet they default to “yes” for any new vendor added, which is why you had 4.
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You’re not alone
New updates on Plex Privacy Policy and Opt-Out Choices (Reddit link)
The settings on the Opt-Out Choices have also been reenabled
This was not a fluke or a mistake. These settings were changed again without my knowledge on my account and every single account that’s connected to my server.
There are really only two options I see here. This either boils down to incompetence or dishonesty
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Also, WTF is a TCF vs. non-TCF vendor? That should be explained at a minimum at that page! Must have been written by lawyers…
TCF == Transparency and Consent Framework
Anyone else getting an error when trying to save after selecting no for all of them that instructs you that you need at least one to be enabled?
This is yet again more BS from plex. I can also confirm my settings at https://www.plex.tv/about/privacy-legal have been re-enabled by plex inc without my knowledge or consent.
I guess when they “Revised” their terms on March 19, 2025 it auto enabled for everyone.
This stuff is stealthy and should be downright illegal.
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Hey @elan , maybe you can help out and shed some light here? I really just have one question I’d like answered…,
Why in the actual ■■■■ does Plex think that this kind of behavior is OK?
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In " TCF Vendors" all my options were set to “Sharing Data: All Yes”
WTH? 
OK, let’s recap. Do these settings apply for personal media or Plex streaming and VOD services? If the latter, I don’t care, don’t use them.
I believe so. As iffy as the company sounds lately on the forums, I believe that Plex gathers absolutely nothing about what is on our servers or what we watch from other’s servers. There are enough paranoid people with packet sniffers watching their own traffic that anything related to a movie’s existence being leaked to Plex would be announced by now.
So I bet all this privacy stuff is mostly going to be “who do you want us to let know that you watched something on our free service?”
FYI… via https://preferences.plex.tv you can request a copy of your personal data which plex has associated with your account.
I had that problem. I think if you have any of the Features or Purposes turned on you have to have at least one vendor enabled for that to work. Like I had one turned on because it mentioned preventing things like seeing the same ad over and over (I had memories of early Hulu and seeing the same ads a dozen times while watching shows), and that caused the error when I chose “All No” on the vendors sections.
So changing the Features and Purposes to all off allowed me to use All No on the vendor lists and save prefs successfully.
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Thanks. That solved it.
How can I get to Opt-Out Privacy Choices without coming to this thread for the link? I have looked everywhere and see no privacy settings.
You will find it linked here: https://app.plex.tv/desktop/#!/settings/privacy
Thank you, I see it now when logged in. I have opted out and still get many DNS queries to analytics.plex.com, I guess no way around that.
Pihole, Adguard, or etc will take care of that.
now blocking with a DNS blocklist, but everything possible is turned off - logging, crash reports, etc.
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