You’re a Plex Pass holder – it’s a nothingburger for you.
I’m aware, I’ve just seen…a lot of hate. Honestly, I’m happy my father in law won’t need to pay to watch my server anymore. He is broke and a few bucks a month can be a lot for him
I’ve seen people complain about the $5 mobile one-time unlock fee. Like, less than the cost of a Big Mac one time, and they are upset. As though they aren’t spending 10x that every month for their cell phone bill to start with. Skip that last call beer one Friday night and you’ve covered it.
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Ok now I think you’ve all given me a better understanding of my moronic understanding of this.
Thank you @nx6 @Divideby0 @tramp78 for the responses and clarification.
Now to go take back my dire warnings to my friends and wait to see if Plex holds to this
No, you always could view any server remotely, even if you had no Pass at all. It’s probably a conception that some people had because the MOBILE apps, (iOS and Android) had a one-time activation fee which could be bypassed by a Plex Pass or paying.
But there is nothing that keeps you from making a new account, a new server, and watching that remotely using the web app, PX apps, Smart TV apps, Nvidia Shield app, etc.
Thus this big change here that means people cannot view server contents remotely without someone paying Plex something.
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Not to derail, but what happened with someone getting PI leaked? I have had…issues with information getting leaked and knowing this is happening to other people is very concerning
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On the plus side it makes the cost to really try Plex Mobile apps much easier. You could hang out at someone’s house and try the app out on the local server and its features for free now, since the 1 minute limit is gone. And if you wanted to try remote it could be just a $2 one-month trial instead of the $5 fee (assuming they did not have a Plex Pass on the server to start with).
I haven’t always agreed with the direction plex had taken. Honestly I’m not even a fan of the new UI experience as it think it puts us self hosting admins in the back seat in place of plex’s ad hosting content.
If they continue to develop more features into the plex ecosystem great money help do just that. If I or my users are going to hit paywalls in the future for content I host as a lifetime plex pass holder that’s going to be questionably crossing a line. Hope it never happens so long as we have plex pass it should umbrella our users.
Plex should offer the option of remote access so long as they provide their own cert or offer a way to not use plex’s authentication servers instead and expand home users. The alternative is this environment where people will leave or they will bypass “remote” by using VPN servers like tail scale or WireGuard. This isn’t ideal because their a limit to 15 home users. Which means people might make multiple vm’s or containers of plex media server or plex accounts to create a very fragmented experience.
I don’t know what right path for plex is, but as long as they stay true to those that self host that’s all I care about. I don’t care about social accounts or free programming. I know it brings in money, but it’s really not why most of us are here or are even willing to pay for plex monthly or lifetime.
Just my thoughts.
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Someone wised up deleted the post. Hopefully nobody screenshotted it.
I was hoping a redacted screenshot was available by the person who got hit by it. They( Plex employee) deserve to be put on blast for that. Extremely unprofessional
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Not sure what you mean getting info leaked like the username?
Since it’s no big deal, you’re happy to pay for mine, right? Right?.?
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Check Reddit
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If you can’t afford $2/mo for a Remote Streaming plan you have much bigger problems than Plex. You’re not living within your budget.
Or they just don’t want ANOTHER subscription?
Probably could have said that nicer mate 
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Which I find hysterical (bordering on ironic) that “We” as PMS owners can not make money by charging a “subscription fee” to people we invite to view our personnel media without breaking the TOS but now Plex can charge someone a fee to view “our” media
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It is paradoxical for sure. My family wants to pay me for the server, but I tell them “I could always use more drives!!!”
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I run Plex in a docker container behind nginx with my own domain and own certificates to host for remote access routing to the container. afaik, I don’t use any of Plex’s infrastructure other than their authentication which is required.
Is this setup going to suddenly stop working?
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I agree.. but also legally PMS admins getting money is a legal grey area depending on your content. Even if you own physical dvd’s the rebroadcasting aspect is hard to argue. I don’t even know the legal implications of running a movie theatre without licensing. I suppose you could argue it as server maintenance and upkeep costs and still be within TOS but I’m no lawyer, might have to umbrella other services to justify that.
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Yeah, I get going after the people advertising their server with hundreds of users and all that TO AN EXTENT
