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[–] bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 15 points 5 days ago (44 children)

Meanwhile I made a post asking if plex is bad now and most people on it said "no it's great I paid for my lifetime pass years ago and its been the best!" Yeah, we know the truth now.

Jellyfin all the way.

[–] AmbiguousProps@lemmy.today 17 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (23 children)

I'd love to switch. I would do it right now, but the problem is that Jellyfin's security isn't better if you open it up to the internet. For example, I'd have to set up a VPN for my remote users for proper security, and most of my users are in other states, not technically inclined, and watch on their TVs. I'd have to at least support a raspberry pi for them, or some sort of site to site VPN, and if it goes down, I'll be expected to fix it. On top of that, if I do a simple raspberry pi based VPN, it would be made even more complicated since they'd want it to work with their smart TVs.

Again, I really want to switch. But Jellyfin needs to fix their security issues before I can. I'm also happy with the way Plex is reporting this, it's above the standard "your data is lost" notifications.

Edit: here's a link to the related GitHub issue I've been following: https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin/issues/5415

And @Saik0Shinigami@lemmy.saik0.com has a great thread explaining more: https://lemmy.today/comment/18923504

[–] exu@feditown.com 4 points 5 days ago (16 children)

Most of these require some form of random id to exploit, which leaves you either brute forcing ids or brute forcing a user account

[–] FreedomAdvocate 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

If you hand wave those away then you can’t possibly have any issue with Plex.

[–] exu@feditown.com 0 points 5 days ago

I don't have an issue with Plex. I don't use it

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