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Plex Inc. is not a good company. They are eager to collect and sell your data to advertisers. Jellyfin is a great alternative. Plex may share Collected Informa

by Liquix 3y ago

Plex Inc. is not a good company. They are eager to collect and sell your data to advertisers. Jellyfin is a great alternative. Plex may share Collected Information as expressly set forth in this Privacy Policy, including the following limited situations: [...] With third parties to improve and deliver advertising to you on our behalf. Plex may also use third-party advertising companies to serve ads, which may, directly or indirectly, collect or use information about user visits to websites and mobile app usage over time and across non-affiliated websites and mobile apps to display advertisements more tailored to users’ interests on this browser or device, and those browsers or devices associated with it. More in the "Data We Collect" section: https://www.plex.tv/about/privacy-legal/ https://www.plex.tv/about/privacy-legal/

sithadmin 3y ago
As lousy as Plex (both the company and the product) have become, there really aren't alternatives with feature-parity available. Jellyfin is starting to get there in terms of basic media center functionality, but still faces stability and platform compatibility issues that have been long-solved by Plex. Jellyfin also lags behind in ecosystem support/integration for those of us operating media servers with heavy amounts of automation and dependencies on workflows executed by 3rd party packages.
- noja 3y ago
  Infuse https://firecore.com/infuse https://firecore.com/infuse
  - slivanes 3y ago
    Client is available for Apple ecosystem only.
    - deleted 3y ago
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  - Larrikin 3y ago
    Don't all Jelly Fin solutions still lack proper intro skip. There are some hacky plugins but nothing like Plex or Netflix on the TV.
    - katbyte 3y ago
      Emby has intro skip now
- skulk 3y ago
  Here's my data point: I use Jellyfin and I am satisfied with it. My use case: movies and TV shows, streaming from mobile, PC, or smart TV with auto-downloaded subtitles and varying stream quality. Heavy use of the "watch together" feature. (Plex watch together is horrible compared to Jellyfin.)
- driscoll42 3y ago
  What is particularly lousy about Plex as a product? Overall I'm quite satisfied with it, it's gotten better over the past few years noticeably I felt with the downloads actually working, collections, more suggestions, etc... I will say the genre filter for movies/shows is quite useless though.
notatoad 3y ago
where "my data" means a record of the shows i watch. i'm okay with that. the shows i watch don't need to be a secret. i want advertisers to know what i watch, so more of that sort of TV gets made. If Plex can make money off this information, and give me a good service in exchange for that, it seems like an arrangement that benefits us both. what's the problem?
- deleted 3y ago
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- abdullahkhalids 3y ago
  There is a difference between * 20 million people watched show X-Episode 5, and * notatoad watched show X-Episode 5 on 28-July-2023 at 8pm. We can also correlate that that they used UberEats to order Thai Cuisine at 7 pm on the same day, and that a certain group he belongs to was Y% more likely to buy the product placed within that show. The second kind of information will be used in the future against you, to extract the maximum amount of money from you for services that "you just can't miss", after being bombarded with ads and social media influencers in sufficient quantity.
  - l33t233372 3y ago
    I used to order Chinese take out to watch every new episode of Burn Notice. I’m not concerned about companies knowing this and using it “against me” in targeted advertising.
    - notatoad 3y ago
      this sounds pretty excellent. i wish some advertiser had suggested this to me when burn notice was still on the air.
- turquoisevar 3y ago
  The point of correlating data has already been brought up, but ultimately no answer will be satisfactory. Some people consider it a problem and some people don’t. The former is more sensitive to their data being collected and leveraged and the latter “has nothing to hide” or simply prefers targeted ads. Some are against manipulation attempts with the goal to be parted with their money and others go all in on “personal responsibility”. They’re entirely incompatible positions and any debate back and forth would be a waste of time of both parties.

by Liquix 3y ago

sithadmin 3y ago

As lousy as Plex (both the company and the product) have become, there really aren't alternatives with feature-parity available. Jellyfin is starting to get there in terms of basic media center functionality, but still faces stability and platform compatibility issues that have been long-solved by Plex. Jellyfin also lags behind in ecosystem support/integration for those of us operating media servers with heavy amounts of automation and dependencies on workflows executed by 3rd party packages.

noja 3y ago
Infuse https://firecore.com/infuse https://firecore.com/infuse
- slivanes 3y ago
  Client is available for Apple ecosystem only.
  - deleted 3y ago
    [deleted]
- Larrikin 3y ago
  Don't all Jelly Fin solutions still lack proper intro skip. There are some hacky plugins but nothing like Plex or Netflix on the TV.
  - katbyte 3y ago
    Emby has intro skip now
skulk 3y ago
Here's my data point: I use Jellyfin and I am satisfied with it. My use case: movies and TV shows, streaming from mobile, PC, or smart TV with auto-downloaded subtitles and varying stream quality. Heavy use of the "watch together" feature. (Plex watch together is horrible compared to Jellyfin.)
driscoll42 3y ago
What is particularly lousy about Plex as a product? Overall I'm quite satisfied with it, it's gotten better over the past few years noticeably I felt with the downloads actually working, collections, more suggestions, etc... I will say the genre filter for movies/shows is quite useless though.

notatoad 3y ago

where "my data" means a record of the shows i watch. i'm okay with that. the shows i watch don't need to be a secret. i want advertisers to know what i watch, so more of that sort of TV gets made. If Plex can make money off this information, and give me a good service in exchange for that, it seems like an arrangement that benefits us both. what's the problem?

deleted 3y ago
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abdullahkhalids 3y ago
There is a difference between * 20 million people watched show X-Episode 5, and * notatoad watched show X-Episode 5 on 28-July-2023 at 8pm. We can also correlate that that they used UberEats to order Thai Cuisine at 7 pm on the same day, and that a certain group he belongs to was Y% more likely to buy the product placed within that show. The second kind of information will be used in the future against you, to extract the maximum amount of money from you for services that "you just can't miss", after being bombarded with ads and social media influencers in sufficient quantity.
- l33t233372 3y ago
  I used to order Chinese take out to watch every new episode of Burn Notice. I’m not concerned about companies knowing this and using it “against me” in targeted advertising.
  - notatoad 3y ago
    this sounds pretty excellent. i wish some advertiser had suggested this to me when burn notice was still on the air.
turquoisevar 3y ago
The point of correlating data has already been brought up, but ultimately no answer will be satisfactory. Some people consider it a problem and some people don’t. The former is more sensitive to their data being collected and leveraged and the latter “has nothing to hide” or simply prefers targeted ads. Some are against manipulation attempts with the goal to be parted with their money and others go all in on “personal responsibility”. They’re entirely incompatible positions and any debate back and forth would be a waste of time of both parties.