Plex will be blocking access from at least one VPS provider

I never understood this, it's your selfhosted server but you kind of don't own it and depend on them, so you just have an application which depends on a their service which means plex isn't 100% selfhostable, correct?

as always for profit orgs are proven to be abusive on their customers... so happy that I'm using Jellyfin

This is the last straw. I already was very shakey with all the restrictions that were piling up, but this is just one thing too much. Cancelling my subscription and installing jellyfin.

Jellyfin ftw

switched to Jellyfin, took about 10 minutes to have it up and running. Cya Plex

Am not even surprised, Plex went to the gutter long ago when someone gave them the brilliant idea to start a media company on software used by pirates.

Why is anyone still using plex?

After the last time they fucked over their userbase, jellyfin was created, an open source system that is awesome.

Dump plex, come to jellyfin, we got cookies.

https://jellyfin.org

This seems kinda scummy. If someone breaks TOS then ban the one account. I’ve seen for years now people bringing up jellyfin, knew it was coming when I saw this headline. I never tried it because I have iOS devices and an Apple TV, but now I see there are 3rd party apps for jellyfin on iOS/tvos. I may try it out, move if it satisfies my needs.

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Im very curious about what was the actual violation

Forget their reasoning, the fact that they can block access at all should be reason enough for anyone to abandon them. Glad I abandoned my lifetime membership years ago.

Why is every company committing suicide by user hate?

Is there something in the corporate water?

I abandoned my lifetime plex license long ago. It’s the sunk cost fallacy, some people are immune to it and others aren’t. Quite obviously some people here aren’t, because they still defend plex.

I had to move to cloud cause energy prices. Using plex just to having easy access to my music collection. Now need to find good alternative for plexamp.

Good thing I didn't get a lifetime pass back when it was on sale, was kind of tempting a couple years ago

ITT: People who don't use Plex proudly talking about how they don't use Plex.

This move makes sense to me. They could be liable for what's hosted in the cloud, and on top of that you can't pay for access, and the host is known as a great place to let people do that.

I really don't understand the people who use jellyfin but insist on shitting on Plex. You can both use jellyfin and not also not be smug about it. It's the same reason people are tired of the Linux user or back in the day why android users were so annoying.

On one hand I hate that legit users are punished for the actions of few cunts selling massive plex libraries and using Hetzner because of cheap storage and unlimited transfer, but I sort of understand that plex doesn't want to be associated with piracy (lol).

On the other, fuck Plex. Seems trivial to detect these massive libraries with hundreds of "friends" and just shut those down. Seems insane to block a whole fucking provider over this. I've been a paid subscriber since day one and then bought a lifetime pass, but this dumb move is making me consider other products.

But on third hand, I don't really care because I use tailscale so I almost never use the plex's proxy anyway.

I wonder if you can get around this by using cloudflare proxy for a domain and then in the settings for the server disabling remote access and only allowing discovery through your domain? I'm not with Hetzner but I'll give this setup a try and see how it goes.