Quality dillution, not to mention distracting the plebeians from much more disturbing realities. Though, I suppose I wouldn’t mind the slightest bit of rooster action on the hawks in the USA and Israel.

1. Bot posts, nonsensical article or meme to community
2. Humans are confused and react by posting lots of comments and upvoting and downvoting the post
3. Algorithm determines content must be worthy of more humans attention
4. Rinse and repeat
5. Humans have no idea how much they’re being played by their own creations

Thanks OP, appreciate it.

I’m not disagreeing with any of your other statements. The enshitification is real. However, let’s not put them in the Adobe camp just because they are selling ad metrics and open about it. That’s actually transparent and still only applies to people watching content with ads in it.

The overall Lifetime Plexpass user is completely not affected by this, so the entire first reaction to your post that it’s time to ditch Plex for some other platform is not really justified.

People who are using Plex for just selfhosting without using their free online streaming stuff are not affected by this at all.

But eventually yes, I’m sure capitalism will also kill Plex. But possibly our planet and entire civilisation before that.

OP is claiming Plex will now SELL your personal data.

Omitting that the user must provide consent, not like Firefox or Adobe just updates T&C and forces user agreement. OP’s title is upvote seeking, cherry picking to quote certain text which makes it seem like they leave the user no choice, and leaving out the part of the text that stipulates the user does have to consent prior to the sale of information.

Moreover, the sale of data seems to be in order to facilitate the ads they show in their free movie and tv content, and even then is still opt in. The ads aren’t, but the data sale isn’t.

For posterity the full OP at the time of this post

Plex now will SELL your personal data

Text:

I consent to Plex to: (i) sell certain personal information (hashed emails, advertising identifiers) to third-parties for advertising and marketing purposes; and (ii) store and/or access certain personal information (advertising identifiers, IP address, content being watched) on my device(s) and share that information with Plex’s advertising partners. This data is used to deliver personalised ads and content, ad and content measurement, audience insights and product development. Your consent applies to all devices on which you have Plex installed. You can withdraw your consent at any time in Account Settings or using this page.

Soure: https://www.plex.tv/vendors/ (Might have to clear cache)

Can also read about the changes here: https://www.plex.tv/about/privacy-legal/

OP is posting misleading hyperbole

This from the Plex site, emphasis mine.

Consent

We take your privacy seriously. If you’d like more details on how we collect, use, and transfer your information, please review our Privacy Policy. Plex is able to provide free-to-watch movies, shows, and live TV by displaying a modest number of ads before and during playback. While it is not possible to opt-out of these ads, you do not have to consent to the selling and sharing of certain information.

We’re never going to get anywhere if people on these communities can’t act in good faith and share correct and information - not sensation. Change the OP or mods delete this misinformation.

ETA: shame on the 63 people who mindlessly upvote this crap without factchecking OP too.

Next level: be a black guy wearing a shirt that says “do not shoot this guy”

Just kidding don’t try this at home

Plot twist he’s under cover FBI honeytrapping successors for Marjorie and Lauren

Can I guess that the American amoral capitalist company won’t have transferred my Skype credit?

!fuckcars@lemmy.world !fuckcars@lemmy.ca

Can’t innovate anymore my ass

Oh come on. He said he barely remembered who Epstein was!

And his skin colour doesn’t help either. Word on the street is she may be a tiny bit racist.

I don’t think it can be overstated how far Apple and Tim are straying from their core values with this and the intelligence failures.

It’s bad enough Tim really only made the Watch in his nearly 15y as CEO. His recent capitulation to the Regime and now this, it’s time to go buddy.

You’re good at feeding shareholders and doing the stock buyback thing, but that’s not really what apple is. All of what apple is and you tried to mimic failed: the car, the ski goggles, the power mat and most recently “intelligence”.

These are the signs a company has peaked and is just trying to ride the past successes.

Thanks to Musk and Trump he of course looks like a half decent business leader, but when all the veils of secrecy are lifted and the privacy promises turn out to be empty, there isn’t much left.

!deapple@lemm.ee

Anyone know a good online store that sells cheap bleach?

Man, these zionist sympathisers really all coming out of the woodwork all because some silly book is making them believe this is the end times. Worse than the MAGA cult.

Warned about this 11 days ago. https://lemmy.world/post/27449126

This is still a weakness of the current federation model imo

I’m the same, I don’t care about the karma aspect, I do care when it is strategically used by hidden interests to keep certain content ranked lower and push content they like up.

That’s a nice analogy.

I wouldn’t worry as much about Alt-Right conservatives here - they tried but couldn’t get a foothold, and after being defederated from all instances eventually collapsed internally, and went to Truth Social. Here, we ironically have much more to worry about from the Alt-Left that uses identical patterns of behaviors, just ostensibly on the “left”.

I’d love to learn more about this story. Who is alt-left? How do they behave?

Fair warning, the .ml asshats will remove this for p0LitiCaL

Cool, I think I understand it better now.

So an r/TheDonald situation on Lemmy would effectively mean this community can exist forever until it is just lonely sitting by itself defederated from every other instance in the lemmyverse (fediverse?). So it is impossible to basically shut something like that down on a global scale, only to North Korea it. (At which point, as the analogy goes, they are forced to send their soldiers to help with the Russians and find a way to make trouble that way)

I suppose that’s a fair price to pay for decentralisation. Thanks for the responses.