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I'm in the same boat as you with the liftime plan. Plex felt a bit like it's losing the focus I care about a bit in the previous years (Integratin free ad suppo

by dewey 3y ago

I'm in the same boat as you with the liftime plan. Plex felt a bit like it's losing the focus I care about a bit in the previous years (Integratin free ad supported streaming, FAST etc.) but so far it has been not intrusive and I don't really have a reason to look at alternatives as it's working nicely and their Apple TV app is solid. As long as they don't complely pivot away from the "self-hosting your media collection" use case I care about, I'll be a happy user.

upon_drumhead 3y ago
I walked away from plex after Little Snitch notified me that Plex for Mac was connecting out to plex's servers every time I took an action in the client (search, select media details, start playback, stop playback, pause, rewind, etc). I know they claim it's all anonymized and no media file details are shared with third parties, but I don't feel there's any reason for them to get the details at all. Plus the privacy policy doesn't cover anything at all when using the plex media matcher (default now). That usage sends the raw filenames of everything in your library to plex and they don't say a single thing about what they do with the data.