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I tried testing a movie from my home server in plex through firefox and repeatedly got this message, even after reloading.

I knew that they had paywalled the apps on mobile and streaming from outside the network but now they have also blocked watching your own movies through your own hardware.

I do get the point that making software should be able to sustain people but I dont see the move of plex as a fair thing to do. Yes, they have made great software but taking your home server hostage feels like the wrong move.

Even a pop up that says "we need you to donate please" would have been fine. make it pop up before every movie, play donation ads before any movie but straight up disabling the app is kinda cruel.

Anyway, i have switched to jellyfin and it is insanely good. please give it a try. you can run it alongside plex with not issues (at least i had none) and compare the two.

In any case, good luck. Let me know if you need help.

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[–] fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Plex really needs to do a Tailscale style connection to your server. But instead they chose to keep their outdated method of funneling all of their traffic through their servers, and need to charge lots of money in order to pay for it.

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[–] HybridSarcasm@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Make sure your home server config isn’t mistaking this client as a remote user. Check your networking, etc

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[–] oakey66@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I had a plex pass and was still having tons of issues streaming to other devices such as Apple TV. So I switched everything over to jellyfin with news server and have everything scheduled through radarr and sonarr. Never going back.

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[–] hsdkfr734r@feddit.nl 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Exposing Jellyfin/ plex through routing or SNAT plus dyndns would be a cheap option.

As soon as one rents a VPS (to expose the selfhosted at home service through routing/ tunneling) it would cost at least 2€/ month?

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[–] twinnie@feddit.uk 8 points 1 day ago (2 children)

This is just some glitch. They’ve not said anything about watching stuff locally becoming a pay thing.

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[–] atthecoast@feddit.nl 1 points 19 hours ago (4 children)

I’ve never seen the appeal. A simple smb share and Kodi work perfectly fine no?

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[–] Stillwater@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's a fork of open source software. If only "line go up" didn't have to be the way things worked they could have stopped developing features no one wants just to squeeze out profit, and sustained without enshittifying. Maybe.

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