Plex Will Block Media Servers at Abuse Prevalent Hosting Company

[+] [email protected] 35 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Yeah, Jellyfin is really great. I’m sure there are things that Plex does better, but Jellyfin does everything I’ve asked it to.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

Intro skipping? Offline playback? I'd love to ditch Plex, but I use these features regularly.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

My favourite Jellyfin feature is the one where it doesn't 'accidentally' reset my dashboard every few weeks to promote its garbage free streaming partners. I don't think I could give that feature up.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yes you can use a plug-in for intro skipping, and can download for offline playback.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

And opposed to current plex not just the person paying premium can directly download from the web ui, but everyone who has permissions.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Individual episodes without transcoding however.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I’d like intro skipping. But none of these features are enough for me to switch from jellyfin. Luckily, sending the files to vlc is easy enough for offline playback.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

There's always this plugin. Its a little annoying to get the skip button working but you can just set it to make a chapter marker so you can skip with that. Though be warned it will hog resources until its done scanning everything on the first run

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Sure put I paid for it more then a decade ago. And Jellyfin still has some bugs that are annoying.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 years ago

In recent years, copyright holders have repeatedly requested Plex to take more action against piracy.

Their preferred method of logging into your own home server by going through their website should really give you pause when reading about how anti-piracy organizations pressure them.

Anonymous Data

In addition to the information described above, Plex collects anonymised data when users interact with our services. This includes:

Server / library data

DVR device information: manufacturer name and model

There have been numerous stories over the years about how anonymized data isn't really anonymous.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago

There was a thread on [email protected] a few days ago with pic of the notice people are receiving.

https://kbin.social/m/[email protected]/t/457315/Plex-to-block-all-servers-hosted-at-Hetzner

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Surely Plex can come up with a way to accurately identify those that are actually running dodgy paid servers against the TOS and leave the smaller guys alone.

I know the whole idea of the shared library is already pushing laws to the limit but those that are running large scale paid servers will eventaully ruin it for everyone.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

It's always the case of a small group ruining the whole thing for everyone. Identifying and removing big dodgy paid servers would be a good middle ground without punishing the others.

[+] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Wasn’t it Plex that led to LastPass getting breached?

I mean, why isn’t everyone using open source at this point? Companies are just clamming to suck up as much money as possible from people still stupid enough not to learn from what every other company has done! 🤦‍♂️

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago

Lifetime passes vs monthly subs. FOSS equivalent product don't exist considering live TV guide, default SSL security, integration with settop media boxes, etc that Plex offers... jellyfin is close but far from the decades of polish and half baked features Plex have added

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

It was a very old, unpatched Plex server running on hardware that had access to LastPass critical data.

If you ran very old FOSS with unpatched vulnerabilities, you'd have the same problem. It wasn't Plex that did it, it was unmaintained self-hosting.

Plex has it's problems, but this wasn't one of them.