My dude if you are connecting from outside your local network you are “exposed” to the Internet in some way. What magic are you thinking Plex is doing? Is someone hand deliverying the packets via USPS?
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Nibodhika@lemmy.world 3 weeks agoThat exposes Jellyfin to the internet, so it’s not the same feature
LeninOnAPrayer@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
myliltoehurts@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
Plex runs relay servers where your Plex server will connect to the relay and your player will also connect to the relay, making both ends of the connection egress type as far as routing and access control goes. …plex.tv/…/216766168-accessing-a-server-through-r…
It’s optional and likely not everyone uses it, but this provides a way for Plex to do remote streaming without the Plex server being reachable directly from the internet.
Separately, it costs money for Plex to run.
Nibodhika@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
In some way is different from directly, on Plex you’re behind a relay server so it’s akin to being behind a VPS running Authentik/Authelia in front of the service on your home. Compromising the relay server does not necessarily compromises your home server, so it’s not direct like putting Jellyfin on a reverse Proxy would be.
inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
And somehow you think that Plex isn’t exposing your server to the Internet for streaming while not on your local network?
Okay there Mr. Madison.
Nibodhika@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
It’s not, not directly at least, and that’s what everyone is ignoring here. You probably understand the value on Authelia/Authentik but you’re failing to see that the Plex relay server is taking that same mantle here, so even if someone managed to compromise the relay server it’s still not on your home server, whereas exposing jellyfin directly to the internet only requires one service to be compromised.