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Plex has announced a massive price increase on the service's Lifetime Plex Pass. On July 1, the lifetime subscription option will go from $249.99 to $749.99, an increase of 200%. The price hike will only apply to new subscribers, with no changes to monthly or annual subscription pricing.

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[–] mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Thanks for this. There is a lot of apologia in the FOSS community, and Jellyfin fans are some of the worst. I have 100% seen comments along the lines of “lol I’ve had my Jellyfin port forwarded for years and I’ve been fine” as if it’s a valid security audit. The unfortunate fact is that Jellyfin is not secure, and the devs have openly stated that they have no intention of ever fixing these vulnerabilities. Because fixing them would require completely divesting from the Emby fork that the entire project was originally built on.

Jellyfin should never be available externally. And that means anything incapable of running a VPN will be incapable of connecting.

[–] Nibodhika@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

Yup, but all that being said I still run Jellyfin and have no intention of switching to Plex. And while I would like to see them fix these issues, I understand (in part) why they won't and I'm okay with my tail scale setup. Also the vast majority of issues are very minor, but the ability to watch any media without login is so major that I think it's worth bringing up every time someone mentions exposing Jellyfin online.