I remember getting downvoted to all hell somewhere when I suggested switching to Jellyfin because of Plex’s awful privacy policy and how they kept shoving the “free on Plex” crap on my home screen every time Plex updated. Switched to jellyfin about a year ago. Goodbye Plex, don’t let the door hit your ass on the way out.

But not really, no

Emby FTW.

this thread got me thinking. i was not happy about what plex did as many of you also did not like it. so today i installed jellyfin to test it out. i'm very impressed. the ui is simpler than plex, but i really like it. i found that it isn't exactly free though. to get guide data for live tv you must pay for the guide data, with the lifetime plex pass that was free. so this is a $35/year cost. not a huge issue, but true. the other thing i noticed is the media playback control is not as good as the plex control, but no media app has one as good as plex. need to think about this but i'll probably switch.

The joy of Emby 👌 I literally chosed to go with this because of this reason and support the team with the Premiere membership. The client apps might be less refined, but they have come a long way!

Ah enshittification, guess ill go install jellyfin, i self hosted to not deal with stupid shit like this but here we are.

Plex has always been for retards, people who are 7 years behind the tech-curve. You deserve this. They're just protecting themselves from the inevitable, the inevitable that you caused by misusing their software to do illegal things. Yes, I am a pirate myself so I know what this is really about. You're morons.

I mean.... Plex didn't force you to friend anyone, and explained what being "friends" meant (being able to view their watching / rating / etc) so... Sorry you didn't bother to read?

What is the point of self hosting proprietary shit ?

Y’all have friends on Plex? That’s the dumbest thing I’ve read this whole week.

I've only seen on Plex items on these emails. Nothing from my server.

I use Synology Video Station.

Uses Plex over real open source like jellyfin and is surprised when his data is scraped. Get a clue then I'll care

I have never used Plex, never interested to self-host it, never read about its history, didn't understand its pricing, didn't understand its self-hosting vs paid thingy.

And I will keep it that way !!

But, One thing that I do understand is that there are Venture Capitalists who are running the show now. One thing for sure about VCs is that they don't care about products or services, they only care about financial returns.

Now they are just generating the buzz in the community. It's just that they are waiting for the right time to screw everyone. Because the VCs will want their investment's returns.

So, thank you to Plex for existing, but NO THANKS !!

Jellyfin all the way!