They charge for remote access whether it’s through their relay service or not, and you can’t opt out of fallback to their relay service.
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absentbird@lemmy.world 10 months agoRight, the $2 is to use the relay service, which costs Plex bandwidth. They can’t just do it free for everyone forever, bandwidth costs money.
xcjs@programming.dev 10 months ago absentbird@lemmy.world 10 months ago
If you connect with the IP address it doesn’t charge you. You can use ZeroTier to connect from anywhere.
- xcjs@programming.dev 10 months ago
That’s not quite the same - that gives you the appearance of being a local device, which is enough to fool the restriction.
Their policy and technology enforcement is to charge for remote access, not relaying.
absentbird@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Can you give me an example of remote direct access that would be blocked? You can use nginx to forward your public IP to your Plex and it’s fine, you can forward ports directly on your router and connect to your public IP, you can use a VPN to connect from a different network; what are they limiting? It’s the hurdle you have to overcome with Jellyfin.
But there are dozens of people in this very thread who if I am understanding correctly are willing to offer the same service for free to prove their point that Plex is evil.
onslaught545@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
People are free to take some rando on the Internet up on their offer.