Plex’s crackdown on free remote streaming access starts this week

You don’t need to rely on closed-source services like Plex to access your media outside your home thankfully. Still a bummer that they are now enforcing their restrictions on remote streaming access this week though.

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While there are companies penny pinching harder to more extreme levels against their customers, such things inevitably only leads to enshittification - we’ve all seen this movie before.

I just hope Plex realizes this and has a balanced approach that don’t go to extremes. This remote streaming lockdown also feels inevitable as a means to increase revenue. Sad it’s coming at cost of restrictions than actual innovation.

Recent Plex app updates have made it a steaming garbage pile as well, so at least they are making it easy to leave them behind.

What happened with the recent updates? I’m on Jellyfin, not Plex anymore.

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