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Plex’s price hikes prove I was right to switch to Jellyfin

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Plex’s price hikes prove I was right to switch to Jellyfin
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Plex will soon charge you even more to stream your own media over the internet. While I’m not a fan of schadenfreude, decisions like this do make me feel vindicated about my choice to adopt Jellyfin instead of Plex several years ago.
The very concept of being charged a subscription fee to access your own media rubs me the wrong way. It’s an anathema to the whole self-hosted ethos and a bid to escape the spiraling costs of music and video subscription s

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