The Enshittification of Plex Is Kicking Off, Starting with Free Roku Users

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And it's just going to get worse from here.

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Kicking off? It started years ago.

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Kicking off? It started ages ago.

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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?

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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.

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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

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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.

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