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They are pushing their free with ads offerings and data gathering (Discover) far more in the past year or two, to the point where I have to give instructions to

• BeetleB 3y ago
  That's because your friends are independent, separate Plex users from you, even though you and they don't want to think they are. Just because they can use the Plex app to connect to your server doesn't mean that they are not separate. I get the frustration - Plex didn't do it in the past, but if you look at it from 1000 ft, and are ignoring history, Plex isn't doing anything crazy here. If you install the app on your phone/Roku/whatever, it's on you to understand how to use it/customize it.
  • mynameisvlad 3y ago
    Except that it’s a massive change in behavior from what they have done for over a decade, which is to prioritize the product they built: a streaming media platform intended for personal collections. It isn’t about the users being Plex users “even though I and they don’t want to think they are” (an incredibly presumptuous way to phrase that, honestly) it’s about a fundamental change in behavior and execution in their product. Nobody said they weren’t within their right to do what they’re doing, but people should be allowed to point out when this happens. They are fundamentally changing the way their app works. That is an user-hostile action regardless of how you slice it. And that might be fine from their point of view, but it clearly is an issue for existing user, as this entire thread of comments shows.