Lifetime Pass Member… just put on The Devils Advocate (1997) and got a full 30s ad.
… just paused it to verify it was actually in my library… -and got another 2 ads… what the actual fuck? Just me?
EDIT: Looking back at the app, seems I was somehow in Plex Streaming, but how it was put up above my own content I can’t understand, and the movie page does not make it obvious that’s what I’m looking at.
Wait, in what situations does Plex show ads? I thought Pass only unlocked some features like watching in the Plex app on your phone (which I never use). I have Plex running on a NAS on my local network and only access it from that same network (Chromecast, the web interface on that same NAS, DLNA) and I’ve never seen any advertising.
When I give my sister external access through Plex Web, is it possible for her to get advertising even with Plex Pass? Should I help her set up a VPN into my network? I think I’d feel safer if we had the exact same experience, so hers won’t deteriorate without me noticing.
Reading the other comments, it seems OP selected the wrong source and got ads that way. I tried to reproduce the situation by selecting a movie that was only available from Plex’s streaming service and it said “The Films & TV source is currently disabled and will be re-enabled if you decide to continue.” In my Plex account settings, under Online Media Sources, I disabled those sources.
https://support.plex.tv/articles/discover/
I’m trying to figure out how I disabled “More Ways to Watch” on my account or server, I actually kinda liked the ability to find stuff even if it isn’t on my server yet.
Edit: Didn’t disable it, just needed to update my server. Now I think I should disable it anyway, because it’s gumming up my search results honestly.
It doesn’t. OP didn’t know how to work Plex software and instead went to shit post on the internet about it.
It’s annoying to react like this when OP is at fault, and this behavior was supposed to be left at Reddit but some users like OP didn’t get the memo.