According to the new Facebook “Off-Facebook Activity tool,” Plex is sharing my Plex activities with Facebook, despite me never having set it to do any such thing. Can someone explain why this is?

I was also very concerned to see this. Plex is sharing more activity with Facebook than any other site/app listed in my account. I’ve never associated my Facebook account with Plex, and I use different email addresses for both accounts. If Plex is sharing my activity with Facebook, I have to assume …

I’d wager a strong bet that this comes directly from having the Plex app installed on your cell. Not browsing a website, etc. You can’t control a damn thing on cellphones in regards to data sharing.

I downloaded the data and this is 100% coming from the mobile app. I used to have the Plexapp installed on my android device but if started drawing an insane amount of background power for some reason so i uninstalled it a couple of months ago. Sifting through the facebook data show me that the da…

Plex should update their Privacy Preferences page. There is no mention of Facebook there. https://www.plex.tv/about/privacy-legal/privacy-preferences/ I find it disturbing that Plex makes so much contact with Facebook despite not providing any details about my Facebook account. If it has to do wit…

[image] Facebook SDK Data issue Announcements UPDATE: See new information in our “ Use of app store install metrics for Plex app ” announcement Original Post: Yesterday it was brought to our attention that our Android and iOS apps have been reporting some anonymous usage d…

I’ll take Plex at face value that they didn’t intend for that data to be collected. With Facebook being such a data vacuum machine, its very believable. That being said, IF Plex didn’t fix the app, the privacy controls in Facebook are actually more concerning. Even if you tell them to turn off fu…

The information being reported was anonymous and limited to activity around app launches and app installs. It was being reported for all users whether or not they use the Sign in with Facebook feature. It did not include information about your media library or viewing behavior, and Plex did not rep…

For users that haven’t signed in with Facebook on Plex, we cannot link their activity to a specific Facebook account, but Facebook can (assuming they actually have a FB account). For a user with no Facebook account then the information would be sent to FB but there would be no way for them to associ…

Then please do something to stop FB from receiving such info when FB is NOT used to log into plex

Why is Plex "sharing my activities" with Facebook?

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