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.

  • CmdrShepard42@lemm.eeEnglish
    3·
    17 days ago

    I fucking hope to god they don’t go full enshittification and decide to revoke the lifetime licenses.

    • pageflight@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      17 days 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
        1·
        17 days 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.

    • jacksilver@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      17 days ago

      I keep expecting something, the lifetime pass has more/less paid for itself.

      That being said, they do still offer the lifetime pass, so clearly they see it as worth it.