This here is just so your server doesn’t advertize to the Plex backend a remote access IP that belongs to hetzcrap. It will advertize a domain instead (if you set it up as a domain) and then the client will use DNS to figure out the IP.
There’s no limitations it’s just the manual way of setting up remote access without using the remote access feature inside of Plex.
You’ll still need to proxy the Plex backend communication.
Thanks. So I create a specific subdomain for Plex traffic that points to a VPS elsewhere that I rent just to serve as a proxy for traffic to and from *.plex.tv.
Theoretically, I mean. 
I would never do anything like that. I’m already testing Emby and Jellyfin.
Don’t forget to report them to the Data Protection authorities. Jellyfin doesn’t appear to have a privacy policy at all and Emby’s is definitely not complete!
Got notice recently and was mildly shocked. I’d never expected something like this.
Plex did yet some questionable decisions in the past, never caring what users had to say about it.
Nevertheless because I’m lazy I sucked up all their crappy stuff, from not reliable working sync to shut out plugins and hadn’t looked for alternatives ever, but this is the straw that broke the camels back.
I sought now and surprise: Others have beautiful daughters too. (Emby or it’s fork Jellyfin for example)
If there won’t be a revision I will abandon my Lifetime Pass and walk away.
You want to go the Hollywood-Disney-Netflix path? Go on, you won’t succeed because your way too late.
Enough. Shame an you, Plex!
What do you mean, report?
What kind of being are you, actually? 
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While @tramp78 may not be fully aware of the mechanical procedure of GDPR action, the gist of their post is plain enough. People who are so sure this is a violation should be doing something instead of just making threats in an online forum. In other words: “Bring it, Don’t Sing It”
I’d like to express the same thing regarding all these boogeyman-handwaving posts about how this “should serve as a warning to us all” and “we need to move to a solution where this not possible” – Okay. When do you leave? If using Hetzner is that important logically changing your media server is less work than changing your VPS provider. Jellyfin supports hardware acceleration and it has locally administered authentication. Maybe I’m not as “alarmed” at the prospect of Plex suddenly deciding to block my entire provider because I already run a Jellyfin server side-by-side with my Plex server. Or maybe it’s because, since I do self-host, even if Plex were to pull the plug all my media is right here and not trapped in a Cloud.
While there is still time for the situation to change before October 12th, like the Boy Scouts say, “Be prepared”.
I’m sitting here on the sidelines watching everyone using datacenters as their means to Cloud when I have had no issues using Plex from my standard home ISP.
I hope ya’ll sue Plex…
it’ll be entertaining to watch.
Even if they had to host at home on an unlimited LTE connection it’s doable. I did it for years and years until fiber came thru the woods.
Even watched remotely.
In my experience LTE connections don’t let you port forward (carrier grade nat), so you’ll have to rely on plex relay or tailscale which isn’t a good experience.
Also its never “unlimited” on LTE as often advertised.
Isn’t Jellyfin 100% self hosted software? They don’t have a central login like Plex does nor do they have central servers which collect any kind of data.
They have a ‘quick connect’ function which lets you login to apps/devices without a password. That would seem to need some central involvement.
There is no central server involvement. First your client connects to the Jellyfin self-hosted server, then it sends a request and shows a code the admin needs to type in to the server settings. Once that’s typed in, the server authorises the client (that’s already got a session going with the server) to log in.
Lol all these pirates complaining about Plex taking a small step to try and not be sued into oblivion (eventually).
Somehow in this thread everyone claims to rip their own media hahah.
At best sharing/streaming with friends and family is a legal gray area, at worst it’s just as illegal as pirating. People should just be thankful Plex makes it as easy it is and not abuse the service. As I tell my friends and family, “don’t share your password because I’m not Netflix.”
Also, I’m not trying to claim the high road I download all my ■■■■.
And if we want to throw them further down the rabbit hole, there were one or more Plex employees guilty of such a thing happening within their own company a few years ago… so, yes, i can’t really believe how hostile many are being when Plex has lasted 10 years the way they have, the difference was that they went too long with not saying anything about cloud data centers being used to host content. While it seems contradictory, it’s not… it’s business. This is capitalism and capital investment at work here, along with legal teams involved to make that gray area seem smaller. Plex has always maintained its use of their apps as personal home use only. And personally, I hate having to come on the forums and see people be conned into a payshare account, be ripped off and then not have any idea what to do next. I’m not at all a fan boy of Plex and not saying they’re not right for doing it this specific way but the boys in the my cloud data center is bigger than yours club should have seen this day coming.
Anyone want to guess how many Plex employees have content that might not be 100% from their own physical media? 
Complete boosheet.
We live in a global word, my home can be anywhere in the world, data center exist on a purpose, dedicated / share server company too, they are tool, like Plex, and if they change their condition of use, then we are also in right to be refunded. I have nothing at home to manage a plex server, having it hosted on a dedicated server was for me a way to have access to my multi media files anytime anywhere. Don’t tell me that you let your computer switched on at home, when you are away for 3 weeks…
and what if I did?
Mine is on 24/7. So are the two Synology NAS that house and backup the date. What’s the big deal?
Yeah, I’m aware of the “let’s get needlessly experiential” phase of Plex and I STILL knew that was a bad idea for them to go down. Like, if you haven’t freakin paid any attention from 2015 til now, nothing Plex really did, or offered throughout its product and services lineup survived, with the exception of Movies and TV shows. Everything else they offered was D.I.A., too complicated to get up and running, they pulled triggers on many services that seemed too good to be true and 
even the most common features like photo displaying, podcasts, internet radio, or the long awaited audiobooks, all haven’t been great success ventures. The one thing to count on from Plex is the ability to be inconsistent. They managed to fool everyone this long and hard to think their product and service is THE HOLY GRAIL. If you data center hob goblins knew the historical evidence shown by Plex’s poorly executed adventures, then why on earth would you hold them to their word when they’ve been rolling in the grass with the elite suits for a while. This should not come to all of you as a surprise. And it was always a matter of when, not a matter of IF. The Plex suits knew this day was coming, why not you?
