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Plex’s crackdown on free remote streaming access starts this week - Ars Technica (arstechnica.com)
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Plex is starting to enforce its new rules, which prevent users from remotely accessing a personal media server without a subscription fee.

If anyone needs it: https://jellyfin.org/

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[–] BedSharkPal@lemmy.ca 137 points 1 day ago (119 children)

Why would anyone use Plex over jellyfin anyway? The writing was on the wall years ago.

[–] kindred@lemmy.dbzer0.com 106 points 1 day ago (21 children)

I set up Plex on my mum's TV and she can just push play. The UI is intuitive (read: familiar) to her.

Jellyfin has a reputation for giving users more control and customizability, but the other side of that coin is that it's more "fiddly".

My users don't want to fiddle.

[–] tehmics@lemmy.world 39 points 1 day ago (10 children)

That's the opposite of my experience. Jellyfin just works and immediately exposes the content we're looking for, plex tries overloading you with bullshit and burying your actual content

[–] kindred@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I believe you. I feel that way about iTunes (trauma intensifies).

But Jellyfin doesn't have that reputation.

[–] BaroqueInMind@piefed.social 14 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Are you seriously telling us you reading from three reddit threads from almost a decade ago and consider that "reputation"?

[–] kindred@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I am beginning to remember what made me think Jellyfin wasn't user friendly.

Maybe it wasn't the user interface after all.

[–] AtariDump@lemmy.world 5 points 23 hours ago

You’re not wrong.

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