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Great, another stalker. Glad I bailed out a year or more ago to Jellyfin.
Is plex trying to accelerate their "customer" fleeing their platform? I'm pretty sure that one of the most important financial metrics they report is number of active users, and I'd think they'd be trying real hard to avoid customer churn. Sending out that "we're watching you" creepy vibe seems counterproductive.
Has jellyfin's UI improved? My wife preferred plex, and plex has a native Samsung app ๐ฎโ๐จ
As much as I want to switch, Samsung app store has me stuck currently.
Yeah gross.
I have 7 people who use my plex. They have all been provided logins. I set up gmails for them etc so they dont get anything. But still.
Donโt forget every email provider who accepted the email (and all three letter agencies who monitor unencrypted email) also have that info now as well.
This is why I use Kodi. Nothing leaves my home network, and I directly control all data myself
Well, one of the reasons I use Kodi at least
Plex crossed the line a long time ago.
Ah enshittification, guess ill go install jellyfin, i self hosted to not deal with stupid shit like this but here we are.
Uses Plex over real open source like jellyfin and is surprised when his data is scraped. Get a clue then I'll care
I mean.... Plex didn't force you to friend anyone, and explained what being "friends" meant (being able to view their watching / rating / etc) so... Sorry you didn't bother to read?
Yโall have friends on Plex? Thatโs the dumbest thing Iโve read this whole week.
Plex has always been for retards, people who are 7 years behind the tech-curve. You deserve this. They're just protecting themselves from the inevitable, the inevitable that you caused by misusing their software to do illegal things. Yes, I am a pirate myself so I know what this is really about. You're morons.
I use Synology Video Station.
I have never used Plex, never interested to self-host it, never read about its history, didn't understand its pricing, didn't understand its self-hosting vs paid thingy.
And I will keep it that way !!
But, One thing that I do understand is that there are Venture Capitalists who are running the show now. One thing for sure about VCs is that they don't care about products or services, they only care about financial returns.
Now they are just generating the buzz in the community. It's just that they are waiting for the right time to screw everyone. Because the VCs will want their investment's returns.
So, thank you to Plex for existing, but NO THANKS !!
Jellyfin all the way!
What is the point of self hosting proprietary shit ?
I've only seen on Plex items on these emails. Nothing from my server.