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Emma Fabre

Finally switched from #plex to @jellyfin and I feel so dumb cause it was so easy and quick! Brought back the nostalgia of customizing my old XBMC setup 💠 :p

Still can't believe I could have saved myself so many rants about enshittification over the years 🥲 But I suppose every of these rants and all the others about every other app are part of my anticapitalist villain origin story so I probably needed them to be where I'm at

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Jack Deth

WELCOME to BAD MOVIE CLUB!!

In 2025, I’m trying to watch ALL of the ‘amazing’ films from FULL MOON, so I’m choosing three a month from the list. If you want to watch them and discuss them, you can find most of them for free these days on sites like #tubi and #plex. Expand this post to see this month’s selections.

Use hashtag #MastodonBadMovieClub (or #MBMC) and remember: The only BAD movie is a BORING movie. These #FullMoonFeatures films are NOT boring.

'Ghoulies' movie poster (FUN FACT: The tagline 'They'll get you in the end' was originally going to be 'They'll eat your ass' before the sensors got involved)
‘The Creeps’ movie poster
'Vampire Journals' movie poster
#FilmMastodon#CineMastodon#Movies
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Baloo Uriza

Noticing that #Plex has ad detection that gets thrown off when there's a weather emergency in progress (as there often is here), and therefore there's a ticker and weather map continuing through the program and the commercials.

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Baloo Uriza

Watching #SNL on #Plex and accidentally changed the audio to Spanish. Guess my local ABC affiliate decided "English with Audio Descriotions" and "Spanish" are the same thing.

Mad props to the person describing the madness that is SNL out loud.

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itgrrl :donor:

#HeadsUp if you have a #Plex Pass, they’re about to increase the cost A LOT – in #Australia, the annual subscription is increasing from AUD$49 to $109 (!!)

a MUCH better option (if you can afford it) is to upgrade to the lifetime pass, which is currently AUD$160 – less than 2 years at the new price & ~3 years at the old price. so long as Plex stays viable for at least 2-3 more years, this is the best option, price-wise

BUT these prices are only available until April 28 when the new pricing comes into effect. at that time, the lifetime pass also increases DRAMATICALLY to USD$250, which will be ~AUD$400 (!!)

so if you’re gonna stick with Plex, NOW is the time to upgrade – but definitely before April 28 (US time, I assume, so best to upgrade by April 25ish to be sure)

current subscriptions are pro-rated so you won’t be paying twice for the remainder of your subscription

info about the changes are on the Plex blog at plex.tv/blog/important-2025-pl

oh, and they’re also changing their privacy policy & terms of service – including changes to what data they will share or sell 😕 I highly recommend you review the changed versions:

#privacy policy (AU)
plex.tv/en-au/about/privacy-le

terms of service (AU)
plex.tv/en-au/about/privacy-le

you can update some of your privacy & data sharing / selling choices (where they permit) in your account settings, but a lot of the preferences are scattered across their website in a really shitty way 🤮 & they’re presented inconsistently (some you have to check to opt out, some you have to uncheck to opt out)

you’ll need to log into your Plex account to see and check / uncheck / leave unchecked the checkboxes shown in each of these areas

opt-out choices

plex.tv/en-au/vendors-us/

they use a dark pattern for the first option – make sure you UNcheck (or leave unchecked) the one labelled “If this box is checked, then Plex may sell your personal data as described in the Privacy Policy. If this box is unchecked, then you are opted-out of this sale.”

the second checkbox labelled “All No” is one you’ll (probably) want to check – it’s the one below the text that reads, “Click “All No” if you want to opt-out of sharing personal information with any Vendor for each specific purpose or feature”

limit what activity data is sent from your Plex server
UNcheck (or leave unchecked) this checkbox labeled “Send playback data to Plex”

plex.tv/en-au/about/privacy-le

also take a look through your Plex server settings for other privacy & data settings like what’s visible to others from your Plex profile

app.plex.tv/desktop/#!/setting

under “ACCOUNT VISIBILITY & ACTIVITY SHARING” you can “Manage which of your Plex activities are viewable by your friends on Plex.” - hit edit to review / change these settings (I set everything to private except for “Account Visibility”, which I set to “Friends Only” 💁‍♀️)

review your privacy settings (takes you to the pages mentioned above that live outside your account but can only be set there 😕)
app.plex.tv/desktop/#!/setting

server-specific options – located in the settings menu under > General

the url will be in the form of
app.plex.tv/desktop/#!/setting/settings/general

review the following options – personally, I uncheck them all:

  • Send crash reports to Plex
  • Push Notifications (post attention to the helptext here, “Note: Push notifications are delivered using Plex services. They're associated with your account, and some of them may contain information about the contents of your library.”
  • Enable Plex Media Server debug logging
  • Enable Plex Media Server verbose logging

website cookies
you can reject optional cookies at
plex.tv/en-au/

there might be some other settings spread around – either inside your account or server settings, or on the Plex website – so have a good look around

sadly, like so many other things we use these days, we’re in the era of having to treat the companies that provide the services & products we ̶b̶u̶y̶ ̶ rent from them (even physical ones) as hostile providers 😕

not only are we the product if we’re not paying for the service, usually even when we are paying for things we (well, our data & metadata) are still the product 😠😡

#PlexPass
#DarkPatterns
#HostileProviders

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Niels

I just bought a lifetime #plex pass, after trying it for 6 months or so. I only use it for #plexamp to stream #music #flac from my #synology #nas to my #linux laptop, #rpi with #allo #boss2 #dac and #android phone. I also created an account for my almost 80-year-old father so he can join my server and library.

I came from #roon which I enjoyed a lot, but due to different reasons I made the switch. Plexamp provides such a seamless experience, I really can't wish for more. Keep up the good work!

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The DVD Conjurer 🐭📀🪄

Looking for some #Plex library advice:

I want to have both the subtitled and dubbed version of a show, but I want to keep them separate and not have Plex merge them, because they are very... very different shows.

Aside from putting them in entirely different libraries or doing some manual parsing magic, are there any good ways to keep two different versions of the same show from entangling with one another?

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Chis-R 🐟

Was shared the update from #Plex about updating their pricing model this morning. I've been happily using a Plex server without paying for Plex Pass (mainly stream music, don't do a lot of video) but now I'm tempted to get a Lifetime pass before the price increases, since I figured I was eventually going to buy it as I continue to migrate more content over to it. Feels like a bit of a gamble to lock into a single service but as long as I have control over the actual content then I can sleep easy.

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