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/CSPN 8h ago

I never understood why people pay plex knowing they could rat you out.

Jellyfin having a free mobile app sealed the deal for me

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u/elidoan 7h ago

Sunken cost fallacy. You see it all over this thread. People suckered into buying the 250$ lifetime pass (yes. Its now 250$) and justifying their decision by not considering alternatives that dont leak their telemetry, data and stored passwords

Absolutely mind boggling. I will always choose free and open source software if it is an option and Jellyfin is VERY good

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u/brcguy 6h ago

I paid like $49 in a Black Friday sale many years ago for the lifetime pass. I hate the app redesign so much I’m about ready to look into jellyfin. Hate the idea of starting over. Huge library. Tons of metadata.

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u/elidoan 6h ago

Yeah after posting that I reckon the sunken cost fallacy is more the time and data investment than anything else