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I consent to Plex to: (i) sell certain personal information (hashed emails, advertising identifiers) to third-parties for advertising and marketing purposes; and (ii) store and/or access certain personal information (advertising identifiers, IP address, content being watched) on my device(s) and share that information with Plex’s advertising partners. This data is used to deliver personalised ads and content, ad and content measurement, audience insights and product development. Your consent applies to all devices on which you have Plex installed. You can withdraw your consent at any time in Account Settings or using this page.
Soure: https://www.plex.tv/vendors/ (Might have to clear cache)
Can also read about the changes here: https://www.plex.tv/about/privacy-legal/
Have you set up jellyfin to play outside of your home network?
Have you set it up for somebody else to play it outside of your home network?
As I said in another comment, getting it to just serve your media on your home network to your devices yeah, that’s not really a big deal. The moment you do anything beyond that it starts getting far more complicated and less turnkey than Plex
Yep. My son lives in another city and uses my jellyfin server. Actually since yesterday, because Plex stopped allowing him to watch remotely.
So you’ve used both and you’re going to tell me that getting him working on Jellyfin outside of your network was just as easy as Plex?
Remote didn’t “stop working.” They’re charging for it. I think it’s shitty, but don’t act like it’s broken.
Frankly I think you’re just lying at this point or at least exaggerating. Plex has many cons but the reason its persists is largely how easy it is to set up.
Sorry, I meant “Plex took away free remote streaming”.
You’re being really, really snippy. Either have a coffee or take a breather, but calling strangers liars is way offside.
I’m not lying, I can show you my Fw config. My son called me yesterday saying he couldn’t watch Plex, something about the Plex pass. I just changed the Fw rule DST nat mangle port and told him to use jellyfin. The user is local, so that’s dead easy. Done in 10 minutes.
And yes, most users don’t have this kind of experience, granted. But Plex comes with its own stupidities, like in 2020 when my wife had to pay $5 for the Plex app so she could access our library. Or the exercise of sharing libraries if you don’t have a Plex pass, which is a real pain.
But that wasn’t my point. I was trying to relay that jellyfin isn’t as buggy and difficult as a lot of self hosters claim.
I don’t mean to add fuel to the fire with Gentry or anything but I can speak towards my experience with jellyfin here. When I started with jellyfin I didn’t know a lot about networking or even self hosting, I pretty much jumped in blind. Although it’s fair to say I am not new to technical concepts/troubleshooting so my experience is definitely going to be smoother than a non technical user.
For context I am using truenas scale to host jellyfin and I was able to install it, configure it, and get my library going on the first try and it was definitely under 20 minutes. Once I decided I wanted remote access to my library it wasn’t super crazy to figure out tail scale (maybe 30 minutes?) and have that available too. It might not have been under an hour total but coming from almost nothing as a newer user I didn’t really experience a lot of turbulence.
That’s valid.
When I first got whiffs of Plex becoming not-so-great, (maybe 3 years ago?) I struggled to get jellyfin up and running. It felt less polished.
But as of last month when I recently installed JF in an incus container, it has come a long way. Very easy setup.
Are you also a fellow MikroTik/RouterOS user?
Haha, yes I am. I think I’m on my 8th year moving on from pfsense, still rocking the rb4011.
Learning curve is something else, but mikrotik just sits there and works.
I don’t appreciate the “calm down” portion of your comment, however yes I am getting irritated and I’m probably just going to stop responding to people. I have made my point. How folks don’t understand why people use Plex is beyond me, but either you get it or you don’t. Have a good one
Well, I didn’t appreciate your “frankly I think you’re lying” comment, so I guess we’re even.
If you need to play tit for tat and “get even” then all the more reason for us to move on man.
You called him a liar and then got pissy when he fired back. Grow a thicker skin or don’t start shit.
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My Jellyfin tunnels via traefik and cloudflared. However, the normal Android app somehow can’t login, but streamyfin works like a charm. I always had issues with plex, because it relied on their own service. But jellyfin now simply works, pretty nifty
Yeah let’s get the average person who runs plex using traefik and cloudflare and tell them “it simply works” lol come on man
I mean, if they don’t want to learn, there is always netflix, prime, Disney +.
Or stay with plex, no shade.
Or you take an afternoon and build something cool like this.
Those services are not the same. I can’t load my own media onto Disney+. How is this even a real argument?
Plex is best understood as an intermediate step. You get something akin to your own personal Netflix/Spotify, but you get to host your own files. There are pros and cons to this.
If I had not first used Plex, I wouldn’t be where I am now. It’s like training wheels. Some people never learn how to ride a bike fully, and that’s OK. But this community is about self hosting and yet all we do is whine about people who aren’t diving into the deep end. How about we just focus on hosting shit ourselves? All I hear these days is Plex Plex Plex and how dumb people are for using Plex. I use jellyfin and Plex. Plex exists for my low headache needs with my less tech savvy friends and family. I completely understand why some people use it.