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Plex Announces Massive Price Hike on Lifetime Subscription Plans (www.ign.com)
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Plex has announced a massive price increase on the service's Lifetime Plex Pass. On July 1, the lifetime subscription option will go from $249.99 to $749.99, an increase of 200%. The price hike will only apply to new subscribers, with no changes to monthly or annual subscription pricing.

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[–] 10 points 3 months ago* (1 child)

Don't have to make an account, for starters. Gives you more detailed control of transcoding options, audio playback and whatnot.

The UI is worse, that much is true, but that's not the end all be all of user experience.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Making an account is what allows the easy library sharing and remote streaming, something that Plex is significantly better than JellyFin at.

    What transcoding options does it have that Plex doesn’t?

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (2 children)

    How is Plex significantly better than Jellyfin at those things? I can just create a user in 2 seconds on the admin dashboard for Jellyfin, set a temporary password and my friend can log in and change it to whatever they want.

    I can even limit the streaming bitrate to the account if I need to avoid bandwidth issues.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    They mentioned remote streaming which jellyfin doesn't have a secure way to do by itself

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  • [–] 0 points 3 months ago* (1 child)

    Does Plex? Have they ever been security audited or are we just taking the word of closed source software because they make it easier? Like Microsoft who just got caught adding backdoors into billions of computers and (pick one) closed source software company who has had major security breaches in the last decade.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago* (1 child)

    Unless your user comes and logs in on your network, and only streams when they’re at your house, then you’ve just opened your server to the world.

    Plex has bandwidth controls.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (1 child)

    Tailscale and IP whitelisting are both viable options

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (1 child)

    No they’re not. No one is connecting their tv to Tailscale, especially not your parents or grand parents, and ip whitelisting is still dangerous and insecure on networks you don’t control.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (1 child)

    Tailscale has native clients for all the major TV OS'. And I'm not whitelisting public networks for my friends' convenience. If they're traveling, they use tailscale with their mobile device or not at all. If you're talking about IP spoofing that's not a realistic vulnerability concern for a home media server.

    At least I know the potential attack vectors for my Jellyfin server and can mitigate potential security concerns.

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  • [–] -1 points 3 months ago

    Tailscale has native clients for all the major TV OS’.

    No it doesn't lol. Only the extreme minority of people are using TVs that can even install apps.

    At least I know the potential attack vectors for my Jellyfin server and can mitigate potential security concerns.

    Yet on plex there aren't any lol. If you're opening your server to the internet, and giving other people access, it's not secure - especially via software like JellyFin where the devs even know and say it's not secure.

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