Comment on Plex has paywalled my server!

• surewhynotlem@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Natively, you can’t. Hackishly, you could put a small VPN capable router in front of it that would manage the connection.

  That’s according to Dr Internet, so I haven’t tried it, but it seems very likely to be accurate.

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  • MaggiWuerze@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    So instead of a service that works, I now have:

    • an inferior (and incomplete) client experience, unless I spend money
    • an additional device to allow the client to connect to Jellyfin, because I can’t safely expose it to the internet
    • the responsibility to keep all that additional stuff working for myself and everyone of my friends/family members

    sounds like a great deal

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    • surewhynotlem@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Your complaining that the free stuff isn’t as good as the paid?

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      • MaggiWuerze@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        No, I’m complaining about people who act like Jellyfin is a drop in replacement while ignoring everything that would make it harder to user than Plex. I like Jellyfin and I would like nothing better than to have it as my disposal should POlex actually turn evil one day. But the current state is just not feasible if you want a seamless transition.

        I live in a country with a very active and litigious copyright lawyer scene, so I will not take the risk of my server exposing the contents of my library, even if that is a minor risk.

        When I can run Jellyfin and expose it through a subdomain, I will. But the devs have made it clear that that won’t be anytime soon, since they would rather have an insecure app than break compatibility with clients

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