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Honest question, because I know multiple people who are not looking to jump ship since they already have the Plex Pass.

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[–] ryan_@piefed.social 14 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

I’m not switching at this time because I already bought a lifetime pass about 7 years ago. If ANY of my functionality gets changed by Plex then I’ll be switching

[–] frongt@lemmy.zip -4 points 7 hours ago (4 children)

They already changed the authentication system a few years ago. Everything goes through their server now. You can't self-host it.

[–] W98BSoD@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 38 minutes ago

You can, and whitelist your local network so you don’t have to log in.

[–] MaggiWuerze@feddit.org 6 points 3 hours ago

Running Plex locally is still perfectly viable without going through their servers

[–] stephen01king@lemmy.zip 5 points 4 hours ago

Can you explain what you mean by not being able to self-host?

[–] Dozzi92@lemmy.world 3 points 4 hours ago

I don't know what this means and maybe I'm just not techy enough, but all my shit is on my PC, and if my PC is turned off it doesn't work. Are you saying it goes through their servers? I'm just curious why it matters.