Plex Users Fear New Feature Will Leak Porn Habits to Their Friends and Family
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"I can see that one of my friends is apparently watching a ton of cheesy, soft porn stuff," a user said of Plex's Week in Review email and Discover Together feature.

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

    • Vexz@kbin.social
      51·
      1 year ago

      Imo only in terms of privacy. I tried it a few times over like two to three days but I always went back to Plex. Jellyfin is a nice piece of software though. I can imagine my switch will happen in a few years.

      • Possibly linux@lemmy.zipEnglish
        52·
        1 year ago

        Its better in terms of basicly everything for me. Plex is a pain and simply isn’t as polished

        • mayooooo@beehaw.org
          31·
          1 year ago

          You must be kidding? Jellyfin is years behind in every aspect except being free software. The best part is that you can’t disable transcoding, which is either insane, malicious or plain incompetent. As soon as that’s an option we can start talking about the rest of it

          • Possibly linux@lemmy.zipEnglish
            5·
            1 year ago

            We clearly have had very different experiences. Transcoding is optional and you can change it in the media player settings. (It works a lot like YouTube)

            Also transcoding requires very little overhead on Intel systems so I would just transcode to the resolution of your device.

            • mayooooo@beehaw.org
              03·
              1 year ago

              Well sure, I meant disabling transcoding and having it play anything. And it’s not about overhead, it’s just that I want to decide what my hardware does - I don’t want transcoding at all, ever, never ever. Not even when I’m using mobile data. The problem was always that jellyfin simply can’t play files which any player can play. I understand I didn’t really say what the issue was, sort of thought playing media files should be the bar

              • 1hitsong@lemmy.ml
                1·
                1 year ago

                The problem was always that jellyfin simply can’t play files which any player can play. I understand I didn’t really say what the issue was, sort of thought playing media files should be the bar

                Please open an bug ticket!

                I’ve used Jellyfin for years and not had any issues with playback, let alone every single video file.

                Additionally, I’ve been a programmer on the Roku client for over a year and again, never heard of someone having an issue playing every single video.

                • mayooooo@beehaw.org
                  1·
                  1 year ago

                  Not every single one, just the ones I tried. My tv can play anything using videolan or nova player, or anything else for that matter. I have to install jellyfin again, will do. It’s been very strange for me, with people praising jelly when it just never worked for me. And I avoided plex like the plague, but for some reason it works. Anyway, will check and file.

                  edit:

                  I realized what the issue is - it’s another thing I’d call a bug. If you disable transcoding and want subtitles this thing just hangs there. So how do I file this? Enabling normal subtitles without a black box behind them actually requires transcoding. And if you have a combo of settings which jellyfin will happily let you choose it will simply fail silently.

  • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    5·
    1 year 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
      31·
      1 year 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.

        • frozen@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz
          2·
          1 year ago

          I mean, I have a ton of media that Plex recognizes automatically and Jellyfin doesn’t, so… Agree to disagree, I guess. I’m not trying to defend Plex’s recent enshittification, but that doesn’t change the fact that it’s generally a better experience than Jellyfin right now.