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Plex Announces Massive Price Hike on Lifetime Subscription Plans (www.ign.com)

submitted 1 month ago by inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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Plex has announced a massive price increase on the service's Lifetime Plex Pass. On July 1, the lifetime subscription option will go from $249.99 to $749.99, an increase of 200%. The price hike will only apply to new subscribers, with no changes to monthly or annual subscription pricing.

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[–] FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Ease of use, and actual secure and usable external access.

Friends/family make an account and tell you their account name or email address, you invite them to your library and that’s it, they can watch/listen to your media on pretty much any device they have. No vpn needed.

Jellyfin is not meant to be exposed to the internet for remote viewing. It also doesn’t have a client on most devices people use to watch tv/movies.

[–] electric_nan@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I've got a bunch of friends accessing my jellyfin server. It has clients for most devices now.

[–] FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I didn’t say it’s not possible, I said it’s not secure and/or easy.

[–] electric_nan@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's definitely easy, and the secure part is debatable.

[–] FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Doing it insecurely is easy.

The secure part isn’t debatable. Even the devs will tell you it’s not secure.

[–] electric_nan@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Secure isn't a binary. Depending on your threat model, using Plex is impossible to use securely!

[–] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago

I was Osama bin Laden and I can confirm that this is true.

[–] Grapho@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 month ago

Huge disagree on the last part. Jellyfin has a bunch of Android, Roku, Google tv and PC clients. I struggle to think of a device me or my friends use that has a Plex client but not a Jellyfin one.