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Plex Security Incident

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princevegeta89 ◴[] No.45175392[source]
I have been using Jellyfin for two years now. I am yet another happy user with no issues. I am happy that all my data is secure and there is nothing shady to happen.

It was not surprising when Plex had a huge investment coming from VCs who might as well just be connected to the movie industry and Hollywood as a whole, when they committed the act of banning Hetzner and all of their data centers.

They also had slowly become just another low quality streaming service like Tubi or IMDb with really low quality content being pushed down onto the homepage and actually keeping your own media hidden somewhere in the submenus. With their updates they threw the entire UX upside down.

Plex has the most mature platform to be frank. But I am happy I jumped ship as soon as I saw their predatory practices. They are not going to stop.

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blactuary ◴[] No.45175923[source]
I have never had any of their streaming content pushed onto my homepage nor had my own media hidden in submenus. I don't see anything but my own media
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0points ◴[] No.45178908[source]
Then you must either:

a) be running an ancient plex version, before they rolled all of that crap out.

b) edited your home screen to remove all of those "plex offers".

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1. blactuary ◴[] No.45181841[source]
Yes, it was a one time process that took 2-3 clicks