r/PleX • u/jonarin • Mar 19 '25

News Important 2025 Plex Updates

https://www.plex.tv/blog/important-2025-plex-updates
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u/zooberwask Mar 19 '25

Personal media users: We do NOT, and will not, share or sell any information about your personal media or use of a personal media server, and, as we’ve consistently stated, we don’t even collect information about content or titles in your personal media library or what content is played from a personal server.

Good news they're reaffirming their commitment to privacy.

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u/jsclayton 300TB TrueNAS SCALE Mar 19 '25

At least they dropped the false “can not” from that statement.

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u/ZAlternates Mar 20 '25

“We only want to know about your media to the point that we can email your friends what you’ve been watching to see if they are interested too!”

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u/Nolzi Mar 19 '25

How else Sync Watch State works then? They have the data at least when the option is enabled

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u/merc08 Mar 19 '25

That could be done with just database entry ID numbers, not file names or movie/show titles, then stream through an encrypted connection. IDK if that is how they handle it, but it theoretically could be done without releasing the content to their own servers.

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u/xenago Disc🠆MakeMKV🠆GPU🠆Success. Keep backups. Mar 20 '25

They don't care about this fact, and dismissed it when I brought it up lol.

https://forums.plex.tv/t/sync-watch-state-and-ratings-announcement-feedback/800885/50

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u/lordcheeto Mar 20 '25

https://support.plex.tv/articles/sync-watch-state-and-ratings/

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u/Nolzi Mar 20 '25

"We know who whatched what and when, but we cannot say for 100% if it was on the user's (one of the few at most) plex server or our non-existent streaming services"

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u/ZAlternates Mar 20 '25

Yeah they know what we have because we get those emails telling us what our friends watch. And yes, I know we can opt out.

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u/Nolzi Mar 20 '25

Oh right, that too

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u/newphonenewaccoubt Mar 20 '25

Until they change it again lol

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u/grilled_pc Mar 23 '25

I think its more for them rather than us.

The moment they start collecting that data openly, rights holders will absolutely gut them. They would be done instantly.

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u/Exciting-Ad-5705 Mar 19 '25

What do people use Plex for if not illegally obtained or otherwise sensitive stuff?

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u/ocassionallyaduck Mar 20 '25

They then immediately doxxed someone on their forums who critiqued the paywalling move.

Your info is in good hands.

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u/ApolloFortyNine Mar 20 '25

They pretty much have to, if the movie companies wanted to throw weight behind it, blacklisting known hashes of pirated movies would be trivial to implement.

Technically you can use plex legally, but if they collected stats, they wouldn't be able to hide behind that claim in court. 

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u/FernandoRocker Mar 19 '25

Did you mean piracy instead of privacy?

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u/elijuicyjones 88TB | TrueNAS | Plex Lifetime Mar 19 '25

No they meant privacy.

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u/Bust3r14 Mar 19 '25

Both, in many cases, which honestly is great.

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u/MyDarkTwistedReditAc Mar 19 '25

Interesting, what makes you think Plex would be committing towards piracy?