Plex has suddenly turned on "week in review" emails for all users the last week, telling all the people they are friends with on Plex what you and other friends have watched. They also enabled a new "Discover Together" feature that shows what all your friends are watching. Cute ideas by a product manager looking to score some points, but why did they think turning this stuff on by default was a good idea?! You need to opt out and for many people who don't keep up with Plex's product announcements, it comes too late when their watching habits (apparently people keep porn in their Plex library? lol amateurs) are exposed without their implied consent. Plex was good but it's diverging so far from what 99% of people use it for in a sad attempt to be "legitimate" and achieve big returns on the US$50m investors flushed into it in 2021.
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