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

submitted 2 weeks ago by neme@lemm.ee to c/plex@lemmy.ca

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[–] AmbiguousProps@lemmy.today 16 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] kratoz29@lemm.ee 2 points 2 weeks ago

Until they also limit that.

[–] Jackhammer_Joe@lemmy.world 15 points 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago

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

[–] Thavron@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] nevetsg@aussie.zone 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] Cptn_Slow@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago

Jokes on them I stopped using them years ago