Important 2025 Plex Updates
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Personal Media and Beyond You’re going to be hearing a lot from us this year—we’ve got a ton of exciting...

We are also changing how remote playback works for streaming personal media (that is, playback when not on the same local network as the server). The reality is that we need more resources to continue putting forth the best personal media experience, and as a result, we will no longer offer remote playback as a free feature. This—alongside the new Plex Pass pricing—will help provide those resources. This change will apply to the future release of our new Plex experience for mobile and other platforms.

  • bean@lemmy.worldEnglish
    24·
    17 hours ago

    I’ve been using Plex many years. I abandoned it about 1-2 years ago when they began their enshittification journey. Now I see they are continuing to double down on being assholes.

    They do not need any more resources to allow people to use what already exists. Most people run their own servers, and, they track all that by the way. Hence why people moved away from it.

    Don’t give them your money. Let them rot. They fucked their user base who built them.

    • shameless@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      17 hours ago

      This always baffled me when I had a friend who showed me his Plex server years ago.

      So you’re using a service which makes it easy for you to host and access everything wherever you are, pulls in all the metadata for shows and movies and you’re not worried about them tracking all of that?

      When I finally set my own up I used Jellyfin from the start, I prefer as little tracking as possible but thats just me