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Is Plex really Self Hosting? (piefed.zip)

submitted 3 weeks ago by CallMeAl@piefed.zip to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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I've been thinking about this more and more. According to the sidebar, this community is "A place to share alternatives to popular online services that can be self-hosted without giving up privacy or locking you into a service you don’t control." Based on that I don't think Plex qualifies.

Privacy: Plex clearly records the metadata of what you watch. When I used it, it would send me a report by email of what my "friends" were watching. Even with that turned off, their services still track telemetry.

Control: Plex has all of it. They can (and do) make unilateral changes to the service, how authentication works, where you can run it, etc.

So I ask, when you are hosting something that is entirely dependent on a commercial entity to function, is Plex really selfhosting in the spirit of this community?

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[–] FreedomAdvocate 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Why would you bother with jellyfin locally if you have Plex also locally? It does nothing better.

[–] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

The short answer is because it is open source.

I'm using some non-standard transcoding profiles, for example RIFE motion interpolation. I have some other server customizations so that it integrates with my home automation system a bit better.

I can't customize Plex.