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Yep. But it gets called enshitification, yet the platform still scrapes Metadata reliably, still streams to any client reliably, and is still easy to share with friends and family wothout having to manage ip addresses or ddns. To me, the 'enshitifcation' people are complaining about is literally not wanting to support devs for a product that does what you need, well.

Not quite. Only if users want to stream from a server that doesn't have a plex pass, in which case the user needs a plex watch pass.

If you (the server owner) have a plex pass, all users (even free accounts) can stream from you without a pass.

If you (the server owner) do not have a plex pass, then the users need a plex watch pass to stream from you.

Essentially, they're making sure one side or the other has paid, but free to free is being stopped.

Local stream isn't affected by this either, only remote streaming. As someone who has had plexpass for 12 plus years, it doesn't affect me or my users.

Yes, because the core mechanics of their platform is media metadata management and streaming. As long as those work, and my users don't have to pay anything (because I have a plex pass lifetime already), then it has no effect on me or my users.

All that extra stuff can just be turned off.

Eh, tbh it still does the core basics of streaming my content and Metadata management, so I don't really care about enshitification of 'extra' features that I never use. It's still the easiest way to share media

Protesting absolutely has started, and look how that's going. Tribal instinct is the part of human nature that makes change when it's needed. It os part of human nature because no amount of talking is going to get a tyrant out of power.

Just watch when the next election is vastly different than what the US is expecting. Two of the branches of government are being completely bypassed. Congress is doing nothing, and judicial is powerless to enforce.

I'm sitting here in another country watching the great tower fall and all the excuses given to do nothing are astounding.

Fair point. I havent heard much or anything, really, about them.

My point is i don't think people need to run around and murder people, but an armed militia to forcefully remove the cancer might be needed, as allowed by law. Peaceful protests are not making a difference.

Terrorism is what ICE is doing right now.

Can you think of a better way to get a tyrant out of power? One who changes the laws so they don't work against him? This is exactly why this amendment exists. A last ditch effort to get back to freedom.

They gave everyone hope that the shooter just missed, but he was never going to hit, since he shot nothing. That ear scrape was so fake leaving zero scar or scab after just a week.

Your users are getting that because they have a plex account that they use to stream. They might stream from just you, but they could stream from any other shared server they're connect to. That's why they get this email.

If you have a plex pass and are a server owner, they can ignore this and keep streaming from you for free.

If they try to stream from a server owner who does not have plex pass, it won't work unless the user themselves have a plex watch pass, which let's them stream from any server that doesn't have plex pass.

Since you have plex pass, your users won't be impacted at all.

Actually I never record videos and rarely take pictures with them. It's the feature i use the least.

I use them for music, phone calls, and AI requests (like having a Google home you can ask at any moment). Once and a while I'll ask it to tell me what I'm looking at to listen to it describe something. That feature uses the camera to snap a shot of what your looking at.

When I walk somewhere and need to use maps, it tells the directions to me as I walk which is pretty neat.