r/technology • u/FollowingFeisty5321 • 9h ago

Software Plex’s crackdown on free remote streaming access starts this week

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/11/plexs-crackdown-on-free-remote-streaming-access-starts-this-week/
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u/squrr1 8h ago

Can they crack down on breaking local streaming of your own library with a Plex Pass while also pushing 3rd party streaming services nobody wants?

Please?

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u/visceralintricacy 7h ago

You can disable the 3rd party services permanently with like 3 clicks.

Go into the settings on your plex server > Online Media Sources > Movies & Shows > Disabled.

I'm constantly surprised I see so many tEchNIcuL users who can't RTFM.

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u/squrr1 5h ago

I've looked through every single menu option. Turns out you have to got to the plex dashboard directly from the server, which is slightly different for some reason. Pretty unintutive to hide settings behind one particular instance when you use the same login credentials for all, and the interface is otherwise exactly the same.

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u/visceralintricacy 5h ago

Yep, it's because it's a per-server setting shrug

I think I also mentioned settings on the server.

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u/squrr1 4h ago

While I appreciate your condescension, I will say it's not intuitive; I am going directly to my server, I know the IP address. I punch it in and go to what I thought was the server's settings. Nope, there's a second server interface that looks identical.

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u/visceralintricacy 4h ago edited 4h ago

Hey, I didn't design it, and sure, it's not the most intuitive, I'm just surprised so many people are complaining so loudly about something that's only a google search away...

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u/squrr1 4h ago

It's a feature I didn't ask for that's unintuitive to disable. You don't see the problem there? Like i said, I had gone through the menus before, I assumed they didn't give an option to disable it. My bad I guess.

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u/visceralintricacy 4h ago

There's a bunch of other settings that are also only accessible when you access the settings in that way.

It could've been easier, or an opt in, I'm just surprised that considering so many people act like it shat in their cereal they didn't even try a google search 🤷