update nginx.conf to block plex news

[zenjabba]

Given people are not comfortable with Plex News, this can disable it on your end clients without any modifications to the clients. (v1.9.2 PlexServer)

[toomuchio]

Plex News? Do you have a screenshot of the before and after of what this does? I've never seen it before.

[zenjabba]

https://www.reddit.com/r/PleX/comments/73ord0/remove_plex_news_with_nginx_reverse_proxy/ <https://www.reddit.com/r/PleX/comments/73ord0/remove_plex_news_with_nginx_reverse_proxy/>

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[toomuchio]

Switch to spaces instead of tabs, you need to add.
Under line 81.
#Disables compression between Plex and Nginx, required for sub_filter #proxy_set_header Accept-Encoding "";

84 change to: #Example of sub_filter to alter what Plex displays, this disables Plex News.

I'll approve that I guess.

[toomuchio]

Merged very cool hack I was using something similar very early on to try and display messages to people but didn't work out well.

Might be work investigating manipulation of the xml to display alerts to users, creating fake librarys or menu options perhaps to alert people of changes to your Plex server.

[sander1]

This is nice :) I have added this to my config:

location / {
	sub_filter '</body>' '<script src="/my.js"></script></body>';
	sub_filter_once on;
}

Now when the web interface loads it also loads my /my.js file, in which I can do some nice and/or funny things. For example set/change some of Plex Web's preferences:

• Set Time Format to display a 24 hour clock;
• Set Video Quality to "Maximum".

(function() {
	if (typeof(Storage) !== "undefined") {
		var experience = {"timeFormat": "HH:mm", "remoteQuality": "-1"};
		localStorage.setItem("experience", JSON.stringify(experience));
	}
})();

Note: This only works if people visit my PMS through my own domain, not through plex.tv