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Both of your complaints come down to two settings options you failed to click. Settings that set your privacy are created when you set up the machine. If you don't set them at that point, they are in the settings any time... As for their content, again, just turn them off. I never added their content to my side bar, and they never showed up on their own?

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I'm certain I would turn them off every time they popped back on, and the settings would reset occasionally.

Regardless, the polish isn't enough to justify a company that has modified the deal (we don't track what you do). Once that first promise is broken, the trust is broken forever.

I've been using Plex since 2014 (i.e. before there was a need for privacy settings) and can personally attest to all of these sharing features being opt-out rather than opt-in. I was not pleased to see viewing history randomly showing up in my inbox (thankfully I don't have anything embarrassing) and then needing to search how to opt out of sharing and analytic stuff.

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