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Plex seems to be circling closer and closer to a bad place in their quest to be a media company.

I’d love it if they focussed on improving the UI and sharing aspects rather than pushing their media and weird default requirement for internet access.

I’d happily pay more for the path I want.

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Yeah, it started around 2017 with dark patterns to try and get you to create an account on their website and has only gotten worse from there. Can you even set it up locally anymore without forking over your email address? Shame how they shot themselves in the foot like that

https://jellyfin.org/

This is what I use for my moderate sized media library, and it's great, also works with a variety of consumption apps.

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