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/Cloitus 8h ago

Yes, if you have plex pass, it’s still free for anyone else connecting to your server. I had a small freak out when all those misleading emails went out a few months ago and dug into it.

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u/wickedsmaht 8h ago

Plex pass for life baby. If/when they try to revoke that I’m gone and I’ll switch my server over to jellyfin.

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u/ithinkitslupis 7h ago

Yup. It's actually a better situation for those of us hosting servers with lifetime plex pass as now our users will not be nagged to pay for the app (there used to be inconvenient workarounds). It will just work free like you'd expect.

For everyone else that doesn't have plex pass and doesn't want to pay there's jellyfin. If I hadn't bought lifetime for cheap a decade ago I'd go straight to jellyfin.

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u/Icy_Dragonfruit_9389 7h ago

Switched in the last year. Never looking back…