Plex starts narcing on its own users' anime and X-rated habits with an opt-out service, and it's going terribly

This is simply a rehash/summary of an original article on 404media. Beyond that, you would have to be living under a rock to think that Plex was interested in what their users actually wanted. I ran a Plex server for years until I got fed up with trying to turn off some new self serving misfeature with every new update. It's been clear for years that offering a self hosting media server solution is simply a bridgehead for Plex to seek every more revenue opportunities, even for paying victims customers. I moved to and recommend Jellyfin- comparable user experience (minus the crap), use the same library, apps for all your devices, open source and completely self contained.

Love how the headline equates the shame of viewing porn with the shame of viewing anime

Jellyfin is going to explode in popularity (it kind of has already)

Lol, I just finished building my JellyFin server last weekend too. Bye Plex!

I've been seeing this story do the rounds and I feel like we're burying the lede here.

Who the hell is watching porn over Plex? That is somehow simultaneously the most uninformed and the most complicated way to access porn.

I'll admit this feature should have definitely been opt-in. But when the update came out there was a big pop-up on your screen when you logged in. Where you just turned all of this off and hit save. It is super easy to disable.

The sharing what I watch with friends part is dumb. But it is pretty cool how you can recommend stuff to friends.

If you're using Plex for porn and also adding friends on it, what were you thinking in the first place? Like, it was so obvious something like this was going to happen, and that's besides the already existant risk of accidentally sharing the wrong library with your friend.

It's a cool feature, it obviously would have been better if it filtered by age rating or adult film by default to begin with but I really see this as an overreaction.

Stopped using Plex long ago but who thought this was a good idea?!

This is far from the first horrible thing I've heard Plex do. Why are they like this?

The great enshittening of internet platforms continues

Wow, glad I switched to Jellyfin.

I opted out of plex as soon as it asked me to create an online account.

You don't need that for Jellyfin.

Jellyfin ftw

I’m a little shocked at how difficult it seems to be to find instructions on how to disable this feature. Pretty sure I got it, but it wasn’t a feature called discover together but a series of sharing options.

Would love to just pay someone to access their jellyfin server. Does something like this exist?

Everytime I hear something about Plex I become a bit happier with my choice for Emby as media server.

At the time of building my then server I could choice between them(jellyfin wasn't a thing yet). Luckily I picked emby

What sucks to me is how hard jellyfin is to setup outside the network

Stuff like this really makes me want to switch to jellyfin, but I watch stuff from me and my friend groups libraries and Plex lets me search for shows across my entire friend group at once. I'm afraid I'll be waiting forever for jellyfin to allow federating servers so that bob@red.instance can share a library with alice@blue.instance allowing Alice to browse red+blue instance content from their home instance UI instead of requiring an account with every instance.

While it should have been opt-in it is not that dramatic. The server owner can see what is played anyways. And since the primary use case is a home and friends setup it is vastly different to a Netflix scale privacy break.

Okay, this is obnoxious and all.

But what the hell is 'narcing'?

More about this here: https://lemmy.ml/post/8550733

So it's a fork of XBMC aka Kodi now. Does Kodi do this shit too?

How does Jellyfin compare to Kodi?

Anybody that still runs Plex deserves that shit. Its been a piece of shit for years and only gets worse.

Article says if you added "friends" to share what you're watching, those are the only ones who get the email about what their "friends" are watching...

And it just reports content on your Plex that's registered on IMDB...

Like, it's not plex spying on your search history and reporting what pron you like to your friends.

If you have porn on your plex:

1. Why?

2. Maybe don't sign up "friends" so they can see what you're watching...