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Plex Pass is going up in price — and now you’ll need it for remote playback (www.theverge.com)

submitted 1 week ago by neme@lemm.ee to c/plex@lemmy.ca

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[–] Jackhammer_Joe@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago

that's a new spike in the ever growing enshitification of Plex.

Gotta finish set-up my Jellyfin server!

[–] AmbiguousProps@lemmy.today 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If the server owner has it though, users can still watch remotely.

[–] kratoz29@lemm.ee 2 points 1 week ago

Until they also limit that.

[–] Mugmoor@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 1 week ago

It's like they're trying their hardest to make people switch to Jellyfin.

[–] Thavron@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Glad I got the lifetime pass. 250 bucks is nothing to sneeze at.

[–] nevetsg@aussie.zone 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

$250 is 'We don't actually want anyone buying this'..

[–] Cptn_Slow@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

I feel like it's another step towards "we don't have any recurring income, so we are scrapping the whole thing, sorry" followed by making sure it doesn't work when their servers go offline.

[–] ieatpwns@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Jokes on them I stopped using them years ago