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Plex update raises concerns over potential sharing of porn viewing habits | Be careful what you watch

Plex update raises concerns over potential sharing of porn viewing habits

https://www.techspot.com/news/100979-plex-update-raises-concerns-over-potential-sharing-porn.html

Streaming media service/media server Plex rolled out a new feature this month called Discover Together. According to the company, it makes it easy to see what friends...

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22 comments

AnonStoleMyPants

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Lmao what the fuck Plex.

Who the fuck thought it would be a good idea to have this thing be opt out instead of opt in? Well actually, I'm sure they realised that nobody would opt in because nobody fucking wants this garbage. So the only option is to make it opt out, right guys?

protput

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Can I opt out for all the users in my library?

AnonStoleMyPants

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No idea, sorry.

spacecadet

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Bought a lifetime pass from Plex, probably going to switch to jellyfin now

lando55

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That's a pretty misguided decision, but who is hosting their own porn?

Pregnenolone

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monke see video, monke put in library

redcalcium

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Ever since pornhub nuked their library, people start filling up their homework folder again so they won't most their favorite homework data.

Zagorath

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People put the media they've downloaded onto their Plex server. If some people are downloading porn, it makes sense that they'd be putting that on their Plex server too.

queue

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I can see someone using Plex/Jellyfin to host their sex work media, like a "Netflix for my boobs/cock/ass/etc." since both let you manage who has access and what not.

That said, it's probably a bad idea for that, and general porn.

SkyNTP

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https://github.com/stashapp/stash

LEDZeppelin

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P0rnHub

Zagorath

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Here's a thread from yesterday so people can see the over 200 comments already made on this subject (links in my instance, the OP of that post's instance, and the host instance):

tarmac

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Yet another reason to be thankful for Jellyfin.

KpntAutismus

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a bit buggy, but i have full control.

PixelAlchemist

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The view-state sync feature and all the social stuff is def opt-in though. Of course they made it super easy to do the opt-in, they want to push that feature, but I remember I did have to actively choose both of those things after the update.

Obviously I don’t really want my “friends” getting weekly emails about what I’m watching, but I don’t know — If I were self-hosting my own porn, maybe I’d take 5 extra seconds to read the screen that says stuff about sharing activity.

TauriWarrior

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Except if you read it the Discover Together feature is opt-out

PixelAlchemist

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I did read it - what I meant is that I think the author of the article was mistaken.

BigDiction

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What’s the identifier referenced in the IMDB database? Some kind of unique content id?

CalicoJack

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Exactly. IMDB assigns an identifier to each piece of content, and Plex (or Jellyfin/Emby/etc) use that to pull metadata.

kibiz0r

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That’s fucking hilarious.

Lifecoach5000

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I’m just now getting acquainted with Plex myself. I have no desire to open it up to beyond my local network nor other users and I’m guessing that’s a good decision based on these kind of feature rollouts I’m hearing about.

Ruthalas

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Anyone concerned about this should look into Stashbox.