joeldebruijn,

More about this here: lemmy.ml/post/8550733

June,

I’m a little shocked at how difficult it seems to be to find instructions on how to disable this feature. Pretty sure I got it, but it wasn’t a feature called discover together but a series of sharing options.

woodenskewer,
@woodenskewer@lemmy.world avatar

The fact that you’re only “pretty sure” and not “entirely sure” is pretty shitty on plex in itself.

June,

Yep. I’m not thrilled.

echodot,

Plex has been kind of bad for a while though in terms of UI being just hard to use.

I don’t actually think it’s even intentional I think it’s just they don’t have anybody on staff who really knows what they’re doing.

June,

Yea, it’s what all my people use though so I’m a little stuck with it. It’s also dead simple to set up and I don’t feel like learning jellyfin right now.

spudwart,
@spudwart@spudwart.com avatar

Okay, this is obnoxious and all.

But what the hell is ‘narcing’?

DannyMac,
@DannyMac@lemmy.world avatar

Present participle of ‘narc.’

DrinkMonkey,

I’d categorize it as a gerund in this context.

mob,

Old term. Think it was short for “narcotics agent”, used to call someone a snitch basically

echodot, (edited )

I think it’s somehow related to the prohibition era. Perhaps alcohol was under the jurisdiction of narcotics?

It’s odd that above doesn’t know it, I thought its definition was well known and would have had no qualms about using it, I wonder if it’s a regional word now?

Gomiyboy,

The great enshittening of internet platforms continues

LufyCZ,

So how exactly is this enshitiffication?

It’s a stupid feature that’s for sure, but you’ve gotta stop calling everything enshitiffication mate

Gomiyboy,

?

It’s a degradation in functionality masquerading as an improvement. And as for labelling everything ‘shit’, have you seen my comment history. This is the first time I have used this term on any platform. Smh

LufyCZ,

Re: using it the first time - sorry, people just tend to use it when not applicable.

It’s not a degradation in functionality, it’s a dumbass move, but I’m sure they didn’t intend to worsen anything.

echodot,

It’s not really degrading functionality there is it. It’s a feature that no one wants and is annoying and badly thought out but you can turn it off but they haven’t disabled any functionality to add this feature

EddoWagt,

It’s a feature that no one wants and is annoying and badly thought out but you can turn it off but they haven’t disabled any functionality to add this feature

So it’s just more unnecessary bloat

jonne,

I feel that for a platform that is commonly used for pirated content, having telemetry that shows exactly what content people have is probably bad.

Next they’ll start selling that info to the MPAA so they can sue individual users.

LufyCZ,

They will never sue users, you can not prove the user doesn’t own the corresponding Blueray, etc.

That, and it’d completely destroy the company, like in an instant, gone.

vFOV,

Jellyfin ftw

J4g2F,
@J4g2F@lemmy.ml avatar

Everytime I hear something about Plex I become a bit happier with my choice for Emby as media server.

At the time of building my then server I could choice between them(jellyfin wasn’t a thing yet). Luckily I picked emby

finestnothing,

I picked Plex mainly because the lifetime sub wasn’t bad, and the features and polished interface were worth it. If Plex adds too many garbage/bloat features or removes useful features then I’ll jump ship to jellyfin immediately. Same boat for paying for bitwarden vs self hosting vaultwarden

Thann,
@Thann@lemmy.ml avatar

This is the problem with proprietary software, it starts out fine, but as it get more popular the value goes down

PurplebeanZ,

As a former director of a tech startup it all goes downhill when you bring investors on board to raise capital. I had to do many things I disagreed with because once you bring investors in you generally end up facing life ruining financial penalties if you don’t deliver what they want.

lemmyvore,

Well you also get a fast cheque in exchange for that, right? 😸

Stephen304,

Stuff like this really makes me want to switch to jellyfin, but I watch stuff from me and my friend groups libraries and Plex lets me search for shows across my entire friend group at once. I’m afraid I’ll be waiting forever for jellyfin to allow federating servers so that bob@red.instance can share a library with alice@blue.instance allowing Alice to browse red+blue instance content from their home instance UI instead of requiring an account with every instance.

TurboHarbinger,

I opted out of plex as soon as it asked me to create an online account.

You don’t need that for Jellyfin.

Aurix,

While it should have been opt-in it is not that dramatic. The server owner can see what is played anyways. And since the primary use case is a home and friends setup it is vastly different to a Netflix scale privacy break.

okamiueru,

Are you saying that this information isn’t collected by Plex for a use case that doesn’t obviously require it? Because if it is the case, then it’s a big fucking deal.

greater_potater, (edited )

Yes, a server owner can see what is played. But this is sending email summaries about what I am watching on my own server. Even if that friend is not invited to my particular server, and even libraries that I haven’t shared with anyone.

It doesn’t even matter if I’m embarrassed by what it sends. That information is private. Period.

random65837,

Anybody that still runs Plex deserves that shit. Its been a piece of shit for years and only gets worse.

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