Comment on Plex has paywalled my server!
psychadlligoat@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
Someone else already said it and you've already sepaped but I'll say it in detail:
when setting the server connection up you selected "ServerName (long string of numbers)" and not "ServerName (your IP - SECURE)"
this routes your connection through the Plex servers and makes it not a local connection anymore. this is extremely easy to do and forget you've done because it barely impacts performance
grue@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
In other words, it’s a dark pattern that tricks users into letting Plex MITM their connection.
kogasa@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
It gets around port forwarding/firewall issues that most people don’t know how to deal with. But putting it behind a paywall kinda kills any chance of it being a benevolent feature.
grue@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Labeling it as “SECURE” (implying the other option is insecure) is enough to make it seem underhanded to me.
zurohki@aussie.zone 3 weeks ago
This sort of thing makes me want to tear my hair out when I hear “Why bother rolling out IPv6 when IPv4 just WORKS!?”
NAT, port forwarding and the problems they cause are seen as expected, just the way the internet works instead of the dirty hacks they actually are. Most people aren’t old enough to remember the time when everything connected to the internet had a routable IPv4 address.
psychadlligoat@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
Nope, not at all. Its extremely forward, your local IP is listed first every time IME, and your lower-down comment has it backwards as it's your local IP that had "secure" written on it
it's not a dark pattern at all, people are just stupid and don't read (including me, I fucked this up too at first)