I tried testing a movie from my home server in plex through firefox and repeatedly got this message, even after reloading.
I knew that they had paywalled the apps on mobile and streaming from outside the network but now they have also blocked watching your own movies through your own hardware.
I do get the point that making software should be able to sustain people but I dont see the move of plex as a fair thing to do. Yes, they have made great software but taking your home server hostage feels like the wrong move.
Even a pop up that says "we need you to donate please" would have been fine. make it pop up before every movie, play donation ads before any movie but straight up disabling the app is kinda cruel.
Anyway, i have switched to jellyfin and it is insanely good. please give it a try. you can run it alongside plex with not issues (at least i had none) and compare the two.
In any case, good luck. Let me know if you need help.
It's pretty rare that a company starts taking away free features and doesn't end up fucking payers in the end.
The biggest bar to Jellyfin is TV clients, the second biggest is security.
TV clients can be fixed with a one-time purchase of a $20 android TV stick. If viewing your familys ARR content isn't worth $20 you probably don't need to do it anyway.
Security for remote streaming is a harder thing to handle. Most people are capable of port forwarding, But just hanging a smallish public project out there in the open is always a dicey proposition. It honestly needs real fail2ban, probably SSL, 2FA and password complexity requirements.
We could probably make a jellyfin helper container to handle some of this. Walk people through Let's Encrypt, dynDNS, port forwarding tests, add fail2ban with a firewall, maybe even slap suricata in it.
We need to convince the project to add 2FA and password complexity requirements.
I don't know guys what do you think is it crazy? does it make sense? Would anybody actually use it?
*TLS
SSL has been deprecated for a decade at this point
Would you consider this a particularly constructive comment?
What's wrong with it?
SSL or the comment? The comment is annoying because people use TLS and SLL interchangeably in colloquial speak.
The term SSL has been colloquially used for the last decade, and it would be difficult, if not impossible, to confuse the two and issue the wrong type of security at this point. Are there even packages that old available to Docker?
We're having an informal discussion here about how to make Jellyfin security less daunting to the average user. Taldan is apparently knowledgeable about the situation and could lend a conceptual hand to the process, but I suspect they chose instead to nitpick terminology that's still used in common parlance. Since I have some doubts, but don't wish to assume, I asked a simple question.