It’s scummy advertising, yes. Designed to prey on a Plex server operator’s likely-less-tech-literate users.
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scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 10 months agoIf that’s the case, then best case they’re being incredbily scummy and my users are getting lied to. Of which, I won’t just let them pay monthly for something they don’t need.
pory@lemmy.world 10 months ago
scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 10 months ago
And that should be enough right there to get all server owners to drop Plex
pory@lemmy.world 10 months ago
but it’s not, because “i got it so cheap for $60 ten years ago” and “securely opening a port and enabling OAuth for jellyfin takes more than one click”.
The “lifetime” Plex Pass was a genius marketing move, because people are permanently inertia-locked into the cost they sunk. For nearly a decade now the refrain is “I just have a Plex pass. I bought it for $30 less than its current cost and it works great for me, sucks that it’s now $90/$120/$240 but IMO it’s worth it :)”
scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 10 months ago
I know I’m one of them, and at the time and even now I supported it. They were adding features, they did plexamp! It was great, and I was happy to help pay for development. Now though? Nothing worthwhile added in years, and just more ways to nickle and dime. Not to mention the ad-riddled free “content” they’re shoving in front of my users. Nope, I’m done. My lifetime plex pass ended up being about $10 per year that I used it, and I’ll say I’m content with that.
suicidaleggroll@lemm.ee 10 months ago
They likely streamed from some other Plex server in the past, and that’s why they’re getting the email. The email specifically states that if the server owner has a plex pass, you don’t need one.
I got the email earlier today and it couldn’t be clearer:
scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 10 months ago
I know for a fact that minimum one of them has not, the second email I would be extremely surprised if they had.