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Plex is starting to enforce its new rules, which prevent users from remotely accessing a personal media server without a subscription fee.

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[–] mybuttnolie@sopuli.xyz 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

forgot most of you here are americans, roku isn't a thing in my country. everyone who i share to uses a pc, htpc, phone or tablet for that

[–] Chewy7324@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Roku is also a thing in Europe.

Though I also gave up trying to set up Tailscale for people and just exposed Jellyfin (behind a reverse proxy).

[–] AtariDump@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Guess what I didn’t have to setup with plex? That’s right, a reverse proxy.

[–] Chewy7324@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

didn’t have to

Now you do have to, unless you pay for Plex and its convenience.