Kicking off? It started years ago.
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I'm a Jellyfin guy, but charging money for a product or service isn't what "enshittification" means. As the article says this is just removing a loophole for legacy apps on older devices. The pricing model hasn't changed.
There's plenty of evidence for enshittification, like emailing all your friends about your viewing habits and how buying the Plex pass doesn't remove advertisements
Why are people seeing any advertisements on media they are hosting?
Same reason you need to subscribe to a service to stream your own hosted media through plex...
The free shit with ads is separate from the Plex server.
Can you explain how "emailing all your friends about your viewing habits" is enshittification and not just a feature you don't like?
I’m really starting to hate the abuse of that word.
The pricing model hasn’t changed.
Doesn't enshittification also entail the removal/reduction of previously-existing features/functionality?
They could have made it peer to peer somehow but are charging just for being a middle man, which is kind of the definition of enshittification
It is paid ~~productive~~ proprietary software. Use Jelyfin if you want a free OSS media server.
Nothing I said indicated I use it. I was correcting OP for saying this isn’t enshittification.
I don't consider a feature that was supposed to be paywalled for years and is finally enforced to be enshitification. I bought a lifetime plexpass at least 5 years ago because that was one of the features they said you needed to pay for.
Real Plex enshitification is how they push their media and suggestions without allowing you to configure your own media defaults. I have a Plex setup to share home videos with my Mother in law. But Plex forces "recommended" as the default instead of library view. How do they even know what to recommend?
how, indeed
Kicking off? It started ages ago.
The current Roku Plex app is so awful that nobody's going to want to pay for Plex after using it. When I first saw it, I actually thought Plex was trolling Roku by giving them the shittiest possible experience for Plex.
I just assume everything is constantly enshittifying, that's the only way these corps can generate "shareholder value" when no one can spend money on anything
Been off Plex for years since my last Raspberry Pi drive died. By the time I got back to building a new media server, Jellyfin seemed to be the thing. Had no idea people actually paid for Plex. All of this is news to me.
And Jellyfin is so stupid easy! I'd say I spent 1/10th the time configuring it as I did Plex, but I don't really remember configuring it. Installed the server directly on Windows, not even a Hyper-V machine, pointed it at my 2 movie and TV folders, done. No idea what version it is or if I've ever bothered to update.