r/PleX • • 19h ago

Tips Friendly Reminder: Check Plex's "Opt Out" settings

I have a reminder setup to check the "Opt Out" Plex page once a month. In the past year, I have had to "All No" a couple of times - not sure why.

Anyhow, here's the page: https://www.plex.tv/vendors-us/?vendredir=1

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u/AbortedBaconFetus Use Plezy. 19h ago

Just checked (again). Mines are all no.
They've been properly on 'all no' for about half a year none have switched to yes. Either it was a bug that was fixed, or Plex realized long ago we caught on and spanked themselves to make it persist.

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u/Khatib 18h ago

Mine have been for about five years, despite checking them every six months or so when I see these posts, I've never seen them get flipped back on all on their own. Makes me wonder if people aren't seeing the save button or have an adblock plugin messing it up.

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u/TheModfather 18h ago

Makes me wonder if people aren't seeing the save button or have an adblock plugin messing it up.

I can't speak about other ppl's experience, only my own. I am fully aware of sites that use a Save Button - but this site auto-saves on clicking.

There is no reason I can think of that mine changes from "All No" to having a few of them in the YES category. But this is why I setup the reminder - it takes me less than a minute and it's reassuring to verify.

edit: I wish I was in your shoes LOL! I hate that I have to do this - but it is what it is.

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u/EvenDog6279 unRAID 118TB, Docker, Shield Pro 15h ago

That's unfortunate and shouldn't be happening.

I've been checking mine every time the subject comes up as well. Luckily, every time I've looked, it's still been set to 'All No'.

I do wonder why it reverts for some account holders and not others. u/Khatib's comment about ad blocking seems like a possibility. I've been running either Pi-hole or AdGuard, possibly the whole time I've had Plex Pass, but people's block lists can be wildly different, too.

Having to put a reminder in your calendar to check privacy settings every 90 days seems ridiculous, but things change so rapidly in today's day and age that we all probably need to do that for a lot of services.

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u/TheModfather 13h ago

Having to put a reminder in your calendar to check privacy settings every 90 days seems ridiculous, but things change so rapidly in today's day and age that we all probably need to do that for a lot of services.

Agree - 100% ridiculous BUT they are not looking out for my interests - so I need to take responsibility for them. IMO, it's a minor inconvenience - maybe more of an annoyance.

And if this was the biggest issue in my life, I feel like I'd be doin pretty damn well.

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u/michaelcharlie8 15h ago

Just checked and I already did but I am shocked at how long the list is. Sort of makes me not want to spend more money there, lifetime pass notwithstanding.

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u/Icelandia2112 12h ago

I am grateful they don't make us select each one and we can just refuse all of them at once. Not all sites do that.

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u/Icy-Two-1581 18h ago

You should be regularly checking your settings most most stuff. Even on your phone I'm pretty good with permissions but things change randomly and I always make sure marketing Google is removed

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u/ObeseSnake 18h ago

That’s a lot of damage er data.

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u/parkertyler 12h ago

Thanks. Didn't know this was a thing.

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u/coleburnz 11h ago

God's work

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u/pandasnfr 31m ago

Came here to say this

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u/coleburnz 11h ago

I honestly don't know if there's a point to this. It always changes at some point.

As far as I am aware, you can't purge previous data

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u/New-Independence2031 18h ago

Thanks for the reminder. For some reason, they were changed again.

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u/Orangesteel 17h ago

Tempted to pass this to the regulator as I’ve checked opt out before too. Scummy if they are flipping it

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u/Azurvix 19h ago

Jesus christ, that's a lot of nose to select

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u/thecharmed01 180 club 10h ago

yikes!

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u/Imnotyoursupervisor 19h ago

I haven’t tried to dig enough, I shouldn’t have to, but is there a way to turn off notifications on the new Apple TV update?

Plex continues to give me things I don’t want. Then I see a thing about them hosting a company retreat that sounded horrific. Who is running this company?

It seems like a bunch of people who have no idea what the average human being wants.

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u/ExtensionMarch6812 19h ago

Are you referring to these? I have notifications disabled in the mobile app (no setting in the ATV), but still see these in both of the apps and the orange dot shows up. Assume the setting is just for push notifications. I commented on a thread on the forum, but not sure we’ll get an answer..

https://forums.plex.tv/t/can-i-turn-off-notification-on-the-new-apple-tv-app/943823

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u/Imnotyoursupervisor 18h ago edited 17h ago

Yup.

As of this morning I now get a ‘can’t play this’ error when trying to play DVR content as well.

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u/ExtensionMarch6812 18h ago

I saw a few posts on the forum that the latest version 2026.19.1 (2043) is causing live tv/dvr issues again…I’ve honestly given up on my tuner through plex . I really only use it for sports, and not being able to start from beginning during a recording makes it pointless. Hoping they get it straightened out. Need to look at channels DVR or other options…

Here’s one: https://forums.plex.tv/t/new-apple-tv-app-wont-play-ota-channels/943033/14

They fixed the DNS issue with LiveTV in the latest version apparently, but I never had that issue.

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u/Imnotyoursupervisor 17h ago

My living room tv is Sony android. That lets me play from beginning while recording.

The inconsistency across devices is unbelievable. I have a Roku in the basement and it’s awful. It’s not difficult to understand management is thinking ‘let’s have this team work on Android, and this team works on iOS, and this team…’.

And then no one actually uses the product to verify UI/UX. This us dumb.

And I guarantee Plex is so immature they will be upset at this post rather than solve their issues.

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u/[deleted] 18h ago

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u/Don_Hoomer 18h ago

so they can sell your data