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Plex is locking remote streaming behind a subscription in April (www.plex.tv)

submitted 3 months ago by Sl00k@programming.dev to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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We are also changing how remote playback works for streaming personal media (that is, playback when not on the same local network as the server). The reality is that we need more resources to continue putting forth the best personal media experience, and as a result, we will no longer offer remote playback as a free feature. This—alongside the new Plex Pass pricing—will help provide those resources. This change will apply to the future release of our new Plex experience for mobile and other platforms.

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[–] barraformat@lemm.ee 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

If you want to keep using plex and remote it’s important to you, they usually have pretty good deals on pass from time to time. I don’t regret my lifetime pass - I still feel like it’s a pretty solid app and service all things considered- but if I didn’t have the pass already I would be a bit pissed as well ngl.

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[–] Sabin10@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Hypothetically, if I have tailscale setup, would that be a viable workaround since everything looks local on my tailnet?

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[–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 months ago

And that’s why open source is best.

[–] superglue@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 months ago

If you are currently a Plex user i highly suggest at least putting together an exit strategy. I am in the process of it but it's rough. In fact, i think Plex might be the last thing i replace with a FOSS solution.

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Wait why did in think this was already the case?

[–] BakedCatboy@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 months ago

I'm pretty sure what was already the case was that you needed Plex pass to use the Plex hosted relay for when port forwarding failed when behind Nat. This seems to apply to all remote streaming, including when you're directly connected through port forwarding or a reverse proxy and not costing Plex anything to transfer your traffic.

[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 1 points 3 months ago

Would this affect self hosters?

[–] konrad@lemmy.dryja.dev 1 points 3 months ago

Well that's disappointing

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