An interesting thing is happening… I am getting more complaints than normal about the amount of commercials my users are getting.
The math is pretty simple. They are increasingly wandering into Plex hosted areas by accident. (It makes sense to you. It makes sense to me, but not everybody gets that Plex has their own stuff. They think it’s all me.)
Makes me wonder how much traffic our personal Plex servers end up pushing our users to Plex,inc.’s ad supported content vs. individuals just downloading the Plex client on their own to watch ad supported content.
I try to teach my users about this, but they usually don’t know why. Once they start complaining about ads, then their ready to get it and I show them how to disable Discover, and they are grateful.
I think this hits on a very important thing. I imagine this happens more than we know, and could likely be one of the key reasons we (the server owners) are kept around. I suspect if ad based revenue on its own was off the charts, we’d have been forgotten long ago.
I’m just a single user, but Jellyfin has worked great so far. Doing the complete conversion away from Plex this week, since the fam liked our Jellyfin test. I don’t think I’m an important use case for Plex (tons of local files, zero interest in streaming from outside), so it feels like the right time to move on for us.
Another option to the Plex “Horrible” App on Roku is to switch to Amazon Firestick.
While not a long-term solution. because the Plex leadership team will eventually force an application update. It is a temporary solution.
The Firestick Plex app still uses the old style UI or at least for me on my Panasonic Firestick OS TV it has not changed.
I am planning to do this also.. What seems most important in comparison is that JellyFin is exactly what Plex is not, in the right areas.
I’m working on this now. My issue I can’t get 2 different docker configs o Jellyfin to work at all. But, I’m going to make it work because I’m completely done with the money grabbing Plex BS.
