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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.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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.