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Is Plex really Self Hosting? (piefed.zip)

submitted 1 month 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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[–] ripcord@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Yes

[–] Rooster326@programming.dev 2 points 1 month ago

If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch then you must first invent the universe

Karl Sagan

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

ITT

is this the best this community can do? don't y'all get tired of bitching about Plex?

I'm glad you brought up the rule in a vague way.

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.

your post doesn't meet the criteria, so it doesn't belong in this community.

[–] W98BSoD@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 month ago

Jellyfin. Have you heard about our Lord and Saviour Jellyfin? Fuck you if you don’t run Jellyfin. Emby? Never heard of it over me running Jellyfin.

You’re nothing if you don’t run Jellyfin. NOTHING.

Vulnerabilities? Yes, but who cares. What are you communist? Letting the paid software win even though it’s got better and easier security out of the box?

[–] trewq@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago

Big fat NO

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