[sphars]

I keep both Plex and Jellyfin installed on my server with the same media. Plex is easier to navigate for my family than Jellyfin (specifically their respective Roku apps). But the way that Plex is pushing their monetization with ads and now rentals, and now shenanigans like this, I feel it's time to fully migrate to Jellyfin. I should learn Roku development so I can contribute to their app...

[op00to]

I’ve never seen an ad on Plex. Never saw anything about rentals.

[sphars]

Yeah, like the sibling comment said, I meant ads for Plex's own services. Whenever they rollout these new "features" I see them on my home screen or in the navigation and have to turn it off. I'm more frustrated in how aggressive they are in pushing these new avenues of revenue; I just want to watch my own media and nothing else.

[Repulsion9513]

Really? You've never seen an ad on Plex? All the ads for their new features? All the ads for the latest ad-supported movie or "channel" they're carrying that they keep trying to find new ways to slip into your pins and/or home page? Do you think they added the Discover page out of the goodness of their heart?

[op00to]

Nope. Never saw any of those. Turned them all off. All I ever see is my content.

[Repulsion9513]

So what you're saying is that you did in fact see all of them until you had turned them off.

[aaomidi]

Yeah you have to turn them off per device.

[QuadmasterXLII]

... Ads?

People are going to the effort of downloading content, self hosting it, and then watching ads?

Stallman protect us what

[shepherdjerred]

Plex certainly doesn't have ads for your local content. It does provide its own streaming service, and Plex has gotten much more aggressive with features like that, but you can pretty easily disable all of it via the UI.

Plex today feels like Plex in 2015 if you spend a few minutes tweaking. I agree the situation is not great, but it seems that this happens with most software owned by a for-profit company.