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I paid $100 a handful of years ago, and it felt worth it at the time. Jellyfin has improved tremendously in that time, adding intro/outro skip, a tizen app, better collections support, and is super snappy comparatively. I thought my streaming server was to blame for the long buffer times at the start of media, but clearly not because Jellyfin starts almost as soon as the player loads in. Plex has gotten worse, more invasive, more expensive, and more sluggish since then. I'll never look back to Plex. What value they offer on top of Jellyfin's functionality (which is shrinking year by year) isn't worth the $2 per phone per month for my new users. I made the switch for ~20 family/friends, and other than the name, people only had praises for Jellyfin.
Your users don’t have to pay anything if you have a Plex pass…….
Also I doubt you have other users, externally, if you switched to jellyfin as it’s not made for that, nor should it be used for that.
It literally is made for that. And yes the security issues chat keep getting fixed and workout to someone streaming a random item maybe. Much easier for them to download or watc on YouTube.
The biggest security issues are "out of scope" because making a secure open-to-the-web media hosting platform is hard, especially for free. The devs have just flat out said they're not doing it.
Everything that people do to get remote streaming working is either incredibly insecure, or a workaround that means most people can't stream from your library on the devices that they want to.