Appears to be Hetzner for now, wouldn’t be surprised if all VPS get affected eventually.

  • pe1uca@lemmy.pe1uca.dev
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    1 year ago

    I never understood this, it’s your selfhosted server but you kind of don’t own it and depend on them, so you just have an application which depends on a their service which means plex isn’t 100% selfhostable, correct?

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      1 year ago

      Plex has been hostile towards self-hosting since the very beginning. They have been asked to add local authentication for more than 10 years.

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        1 year ago

        Yup, as soon as they started the mandatory login bullshit, I bounced. Companies keep adding this “feature” as a way to control your stuff: Doom on Switch, Halo Master Chief edition, nvidia, my fucking mouse(!?); all need a login for no other reason than to add a point of failure/killswitch.

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      The problem is that they want to route control through their own servers for making sure you can’t use some of the extra features without paying.

      A few years back they dropped some clients (including the one for my old TV) because they were dropping support for legacy SSL ciphers on their servers - and those devices didn’t have support for the new ciphers. This is a pretty stupid dependency due to the way they want to do things - so I moved to jellyfin back then, and have been encouraging people to drop plex ever since.