Plex just announced that remote streaming will be a paid feature: https://www.plex.tv/blog/important-2025-plex-updates/

Wow, WTF?? You just publicly posted PI in violation of Plex’s privacy policy. ■■■■ move number two today. I’ll save you the effort, I registered in 2015, and lived through the absolute ■■■■ software releases back then. And haven’t streamed a thing off my plex sever in a year and a half.

I bet they don’t want users to use Tailscale, just for those reasons…

Another concern I have is just due to the ambiguity of who needs a Streaming Pass and who doesn’t, how many older non-technical folks are going to be purchasing one, even when they don’t need it? I bet it’s a fairly significant number.

Couldn’t care less whether they want it or not, I want to understand what they mean by “remote”. It’s currently ambiguous when you can put both the client and server on the same virtual network.

WTF is going on at plex. First the plans of removing “Watch together” and not this. Why are you guys so greedy and provide nothing special. What costs are you talking about regarding remote streaming. Do you thing we are stupid? Remote streaming costs you nothing. And plex is in no way easier to set…

The more I think about it the more it seems like this is effectively unenforceable and largely just a tax on people who are less capable with server admin. I can just stick nginx in front of plex and then all connections to it are “local”.. :man_shrugging:

Not entirely sure I understand this change. What if I already paid the one time unlock fee for mobile devices, will I still be able to remotely access through my phone once the Plex experience takes effect?

[image] m_rkw.io: The more I think about it the more it seems like this is effectively unenforceable and largely just a tax on people who are less capable with server admin. I can just stick nginx in front of plex and then all connections to it are “local”.. :man_shrugging: They’ve already co…

The messaging here from Plex Staff and Forum Mods has been pretty terrible. You’ve already rewritten portions of your blog post. You fail to mention what features, such as Watch Together, will be removed with the price hike. More concerning though, will Plex be getting rid of this Dane22 employee t…

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dnyank1 March 19, 2025, 9:08pm 97

did they share MORE of MY private information, or was this Yours? or someone elses? looks like they deleted that post…

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