![]() Today we see a lot of "free" software that seems to me to be made simply to be allowed to spy on the user. Things that were simply unthinkable to do to your users just a few years ago have suddenly become accepted because the big ones like Google, Facebook, Apple etc has started doing this and basically gotten away with it. I don't know what Plex does and I'm not alleging that Plex has any such practices, but in general this is becoming a huge problem. Theoretically, open source software can do this too, but since it's open anybody that looks in the source can find out - and thus it's not really a viable thing to do. It can then go on to sell this to the highest bidder or report it to the government or whatnot. It can collect information about your media, your habits or frankly anything is can get access to on your computer. Any software that's not open source can do all kind of shady stuff with your data and nobody would know. To me, it's essential whether something is open source or not. It depends completely on what you need/want. Both also does things that the other doesn't. UMS does some things better than Plex, Plex does other things better than UMS. I don't think there's a good answer to that.
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