Important 2025 Plex Updates
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Personal Media and Beyond You’re going to be hearing a lot from us this year—we’ve got a ton of exciting...

We are also changing how remote playback works for streaming personal media (that is, playback when not on the same local network as the server). The reality is that we need more resources to continue putting forth the best personal media experience, and as a result, we will no longer offer remote playback as a free feature. This—alongside the new Plex Pass pricing—will help provide those resources. This change will apply to the future release of our new Plex experience for mobile and other platforms.

  • pageflight@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    8 hours ago

    Even with Plex pass they were really pushing their paid content. Much happier with Jellyfin, and it was very easy to switch.

    • 032 Mendicant Bias@feddit.ukEnglish
      2·
      5 hours ago

      What paid content? I have a Plex lifetime pass and I can’t recall ever being asked to pay for anything? I can remember them dumping free TV channels in there at some point, but I simply switched that off and it’s not come back.

      • pageflight@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        4 hours ago

        Hmm, it’s been a while, maybe I’m misremembering. There were definitely some categories of Plex content not from my library that kept reappearing on the home page of my server, despite trying to get rid of them a few times. Maybe they weren’t actually paid, I just assumed they’d only be pushing something if it was going to bring them more revenue.

        The other thing that made me want to jump ship extremely fast was when they started sharing your recently watched items with other users, without asking.