Although the headline focusses on a obvious category of media, it really can go wrong on a lot of other categories as well.

  • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    374·
    11 months ago

    This isn’t an entirely “new” feature, in a way.

    You always had access to see what your friends were watching on your own server. This is a consequences of being an admin, you kind of have to have access to that kind of data to manage your system and streams.

    This seems to just extend it to showing you what they’re watching on other servers, as well.

    Anyway, if the concern is that Plex, the company, has access to this data, then yeah, you probably should have read the privacy policy a little closer.

    Jellyfin is there and doesn’t have a parent company to “phone home” data to.

    • frozen@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz
      162·
      11 months ago

      It’s unfortunate that Jellyfin is just slightly worse than Plex at pretty much everything. Playback is smooth, sure, but set up is harder, getting good metadata is harder, logging in is harder, etc.

      The metadata one really put me off. I set up a Jellyfin instance with the exact same media set as my Plex instance, and it immediately started “recognizing” standard movies and shows as porn and hentai. I’m still going to push through and get it properly set up eventually, but even so, I’m not looking forward to manually managing accounts when people can just SSO with Plex.

    • _number8_@lemmy.world
      77·
      11 months ago

      Anyway, if the concern is that Plex, the company, has access to this data, then yeah, you probably should have read the privacy policy a little closer.

      come on, you know this is a non answer. also plex shouldn’t have this data, it should be for the admin only.

      • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        122·
        11 months ago

        It’s a non-answer that their privacy policy explicitly states that they will collect this type of information and that they stipulate what kind parties they can share that info with?

        https://www.plex.tv/about/privacy-legal/

        That’s the straightest answer that you’re going to get. Privacy policies like this are bullshit, but they’re also the norm so acting like it’s a non-answer after 20 years of this being the norm seems a little… naive, perhaps?

      • gregorum@lemm.eeEnglish
        8·
        11 months ago

        They say they use it to sync up your watch history to your account so it can sync across devices, but I wouldn’t be surprised if they were selling your watch telemetry to advertisers as well.