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Plex Pass is going up in price — and now you’ll need it for remote playback (www.theverge.com)

submitted 1 month ago by neme@lemm.ee to c/plex@lemmy.ca

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[–] AmbiguousProps@lemmy.today 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

If the server owner has it though, users can still watch remotely.

[–] kratoz29@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago

Until they also limit that.

[–] Jackhammer_Joe@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago

that's a new spike in the ever growing enshitification of Plex.

Gotta finish set-up my Jellyfin server!

[–] Mugmoor@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 1 month ago

It's like they're trying their hardest to make people switch to Jellyfin.

[–] Thavron@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Glad I got the lifetime pass. 250 bucks is nothing to sneeze at.

[–] nevetsg@aussie.zone 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

$250 is 'We don't actually want anyone buying this'..

[–] Cptn_Slow@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

I feel like it's another step towards "we don't have any recurring income, so we are scrapping the whole thing, sorry" followed by making sure it doesn't work when their servers go offline.

[–] ieatpwns@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Jokes on them I stopped using them years ago