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Plex’s crackdown on free remote streaming access starts this week (arstechnica.com)
submitted 11 months ago by to c/plex@lemmy.ca
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[–] 2 points 11 months ago (10 children)

Plex's remote play works for me when I'm away from home - which is on starlink. Jellyfish does not, because starlink uses cgnat. 🤷

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago (9 children)

    Find a proxy?

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago (7 children)

    Can you share a free proxy that would work for them?

    Otherwise you'd be recommending them use a paid service "like a moron"

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  • [–] 0 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (6 children)

    Do you have friends? With internet connections? That's how you do this.

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago (5 children)

    So your suggestion is to convince a friend to let me tunnel all my Internet traffic through their connection, with no concern of uptime?

    I mean yeah, I guess that works, but is unreliable, and in some cases unobtainable.

    Seems like a paid service would be easier for quite a few folks.

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  • [–] 0 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

    Or just the traffic you need to

    I've done this for people. With a good connection, it's fine.

    This may shock you, but noncommercial relationships can be be helpful for fighting the oppression of corporate oligarchy.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago*

    My non-commercial relationships are fine. I just don't have the time or energy to teach non-self-hosters the ramifications of me connecting tailscale or wire guard on their machines.

    I guess you get a star sticker? Good for you that you have a solution that works for you, however it won't work for most folks, and that doesn't make them morons.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago

    You mean like the one that Plex provides with Plex pass?
    I haven't been able to find a free proxy provider that is ok with streaming video. Closest I've found is CloudFlare, and video streaming isn't permitted on their free tier.
    Plex pass is a lot cheaper for me than paying for CloudFlare's non-free tiers, especially since I got myself a lifetime pass 3 years ago.

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