Plex Security Incident

Not necessarily related, but I'll take the opportunity to share my dislike of this company. Like others, they built a loyal following around a set of features provided, no questions asked, to stream your content to your own devices.

Over the last couple of years, Plex has continued to strip functionality, add paywalls, make deals with publishing companies, and take other actions that firmly put them in the 'enshittifaction' phase. They've capitalized on the community that gave them their success, so I've cashed out as well.

At this point there is little need for those of us with some technical ability to use this software and all the bloat that comes with it. Jellyfin[1] is an excellent alternative that I've fully switched over to this last year. I will not let a company take ownership of my media library, ever.

[1] https://jellyfin.org/

I have a “lifetime pass”. I’ve noticed some of these “features” creeping into the ecosystem (bloat), but I haven’t actually seen any stripped functionality. For the most part, it works as advertised.

That being said, a lot of my mates are moving to Jellyfin. Nothing but good things from them.

> but I haven’t actually seen any stripped functionality

Plugins, the watch later list, the up next/playback queue, Plex Cloud/Cloud Sync, photo backup (this one hurt), privacy preferences were badly nerfed.

Those are just the ones I miss, I'm sure there are more (like the short lived arcade thing).