Yesterday’s controversy surrounding Plex and their latest e-mail marketing campaign has been a great reminder to review the privacy settings they provide for opting out of data collection.
We’ve compiled a handy list for those not ready to make the jump to alternatives like Jellyfin, Dim, or Emby:
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Privacy conscious users haven’t been using Plex for ~7 years since they started requiring auth go through their servers.
The problem for me with jelly fin is how difficult it is for my users to use it outside of my house. I have it setup for my parents and inlaws who barely know how to use email, plex for them is like netflix but allows them to also view family videos. I cant easily set that up for them unless I am physically in their house and set it up on all of their devices. Plex I can just give them a username and password and it is all set. Once I have an option to do that I might switch to another service.
Thanks, this is actually pretty useful!
When a service that I self-host violates my trust in a way that I have no control over, I uninstall it. I’d rather be mad at my own failure to secure/properly configure my shit than be betrayed by a third party.
The people still on Plex are looking around at the metaphorical piles of rubble that used to be their neighbors and thinking to themselves, “Well my house is still standing so why would I move?”.
Eventually Plex the company will find your own personal line and cross it.
The only thing on that list should be
- Uninstall Plex
- Install Jellyfin
Thanks. Good for a quick checkup of my settings!
even though I paid for a lifetime pass, the only thing holding me back to switch to jellyfin is that it took me several hoursin total to find custom covers and make sure that the agent got the episode names etc right
I simply don’t want to do it all. over again with jellyfin