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Why is the worldwide outage of Samsung servers taking down my locally hosted Plex library? This is ridiculous. What does Plex have to do with Samsung? And what does my home library have to do with Samsung? NOTHING!!!
Something like this should never ever happen. And yet…
Are you using a Samsung device? Seems relevant.
Your server configured to bypass auth?
Yes. Samsung TV. How do I bypass authentication? Still doesn’t explain why Samsung’s servers are needed for any of this. (Netflix app is fine, but it’s the only app that works on the TV.)
Plex documentation.
Netflix is a larger organization than Plex.
The second part of your answer literally makes no sense and has nothing to do with anything. Also thanks for nothing. Why even bother with a response?
If Netflix is the ONLY app with their own independent direct path to network. It means they have special API that not disney+, not peacock, not hbo etc etc has access to.
Netflix has special API access.
And Plex is smaller than them, with less influential pool.
Plex is likewise not bigger and more influential than hbo, apple or peacock etc.
Im not sure why you’re here complaining about Plex when it seems like Samsung sucks.
Worth the frequent reminder. Never let your TVs touch the internet.
Thank you for the explanation. This does make a lot of sense now.
I agree. Samsung sucks. I had no idea they controlled Internet access in this insane manner. (Sorry. Never looked into how Tizen apps work.) The normal person asks, “How does accessing Plex or Prime or Apple or anything else involve Samsung?” IT DOESN’T. So why would a Samsung outage break all networked apps (except Netflix)?
It seemed so insane to me that I thought the apps must be doing something silly for Samsung to be able to break them like this. After all, how hard can it be to make a DNS lookup (via the local DNS server) and then open a HTTPS connection? Samsung shouldn’t be involved at all.
Apparently, it’s very difficult on a Samsung TV, and I didn’t know that. It’s absolute insanity. “Never let your TVs touch the internet,” seems like very good advice after this experience.
What I am always wondering, though, is whether Roku sticks or Apple TVs, etc. are really that much better than the TVs themselves? Isn’t that the same thing all over again, just from different companies?
Not much. But at least they don’t have inbuilt cameras/microphones to spy on your behaviour/reaction/presence in front of the screen.
And they ususally are supported for a longer time than your average Smart TV model. Because a Smart TV which doesn’t get any firmware updates anymore, or is cut off from the manufacturer’s cloud servers becomes a dumb TV.
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