Plex - how bad is it for privacy?

[jonah (Jonah Aragon)]

Personally I do use Plex, currently. Since alternatives exist though which better fit our general criteria (i.e. preferring open source) and there are no privacy advantages to using Plex, I don’t see a need to include it on the website.

The biggest reason to not recommend Plex IMO is to avoid this issue:

Avoiding the next Skiff

Continuing the discussion from Remove Skiff: I think clearly there is some need to define a criteria to weed out technically proficient products that secretly aren’t in it for the long-term. There are of course many examples of this: Skiff, Keybase, Ello, Krypt[.]co, etc. The problem is of course where to draw that line. IMHO, the most promising possibility to me at the moment is to simply reject VC funded projects (I’m going to merge the discussion about that into this topic below, so you can…