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I agree with most what you’re saying, I disagree with the last part of what you’re saying.

The self-host movement is about taking control away from companies, and running web services locally instead of having to rely on companies for them and pay for them. Most things you can run locally without needing a server, but there are absolutely good use cases for server-based services. Some great examples of this are cloud storage, code repositories, and chat servers. You could run each of those things locally, but they are each improved by running them on a dedicated server designed for 24/7 uptime and centralized access.

It’s not just media that doesn’t feed recommendation algorithms - I actually like recommendation algorithms (Jellyseerr does a pretty great job with this), it’s more about having control over my media and it not being taken away randomly. So many times an older show I would want to watch would no longer be “available” so I’d have to download it anyway, with no option of paying to watch for it.

Oh, right, it was basic auth (behind a reverse proxy, or even in general) that Jellyfin doesn’t support and isn’t planned to support IIRC.

And with ro rights to media, potential damage at least should be pretty limited.

Depends entirely on where you live I would think.

It does, yeah.

If they are providing the content, they can see that they are providing the content and that much is obvious.

If you are providing the content, you wouldn’t expect that they can identify what you are watching.

That’s the difference to me, yeah.

So I searched, and all of the results were talking about setting up a VPN or a reverse proxy or whatever.

The best thing is, you can’t use a reverse proxy with it, it doesn’t even support it.

FWIW apparently this is talking about their free content, not about user content.

This is basically my exact situation lol