My aim is to get my friends and family to stop paying for streaming services and if I have to pay for Plex to achieve this then that’s a win.

Jellyfin is nowhere near as feature complete as Plex and not by a long shot. My users don’t like the UI of Jellyfin and setting up for remote access is no trivial feat. With this in mind and my goals Plex is better suited.

So far have 8 users all saving £10-40 a month not going to streaming services.

python -m http.server is still my media server of choice. It’s never let me down.

One of the security upsides to plex is that any number of people can log in with the same credential.

That means that while Plex can harvest information- what account, what’s being watched, IP address, device and player identifier- It doesn’t know who to attach that information to. So you can get dozens or maybe hundreds of users polluting the same account with watch information. Less useful information to be sure.

I feel like I know the answer but what happens if you click “I do not agree”?

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Aww come on guys, my JF boner can only handle so much /s

Seriously though, why did they even give you the option to disagree, you know they’re just going to force it 3-6 months.

Nothing is ever truly free in this world. They gotta pay their bills too.

Can someone explain to me why you need anything more than directories filled with files to view content?

I’m struggling to understand why anybody would need or want something like Plex.

I want to watch a movie. I open explorer, go to the folder movies, select the movie, and double click the icon.

The end.

Speedrunning destroying your platform.

Me eating 🍿 and reading the comments of Plex users arguing with Jellyfin users, while myself being a user of Kodi which has it’s own problems…

Goddammit… Right after I got the lifetime pass…

@Sunny lol OK so which subdomain do I block.

If we find out “I do not consent” opts out, I’m fine with it. If we find out “I do not consent” leads to a “Close our account” page, it’s time for pitchforks, especially since they recently had a huge sale on lifetime memberships.

I have a lifetime Plex pass but still I am considering switching. Currently I have both Jellyfin and Plex on the same libraries but Jellyfin doesn’t have support for chromecast (on iOS and Firefox) nor support for offline . (Not) covering neither my at home nor travelling use cases 😕

“Hashed emails”. Besides the fact that they can match up a hash from one source to a hash from another source to link them to the same person (they never said they’d salt them), emails often have enough predictability to break the hash. Assuming they all end in “@gmail.com”, “@outlook.com”, or “@yahoo.com” will get you the vast majority of emails out there. Unlike a good password scheme, people don’t shove a lot of random data into their email addresses.