Comment on That's all folks, Plex is starting to charge for sharing

• scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  And that should be enough right there to get all server owners to drop Plex

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  • pory@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 :)”

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    • scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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