We have recently experienced a security incident that may potentially involve your Plex account information. We believe the actual impact of this incident is limited; however, action is required from you to ensure your account remains secure. What happened An unauthorized third party accessed a limited subset of customer data from one of our databases. While we quickly contained the incident, information that was accessed included emails, usernames, securely hashed passwords and authentication ...
  • floofloof@lemmy.caEnglish
    574·
    4 months ago

    Went there to update my password but got reminded what a horrible experience Plex is these days, so deleted my account instead.

    • Squizzy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      617·
      4 months ago

      I’ll probably get the lifetime pass after seeing how cumbersome setting up jellyfin is.

      • prince of space@lemmy.worldEnglish
        102·
        4 months ago

        Jellyfin setup is fairly effortless. They have a very long way to catch up on apps though. That’s all that’s keeping me in plex.

      • kylian0087@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        52·
        4 months ago

        Installing jellyfin is as easy as setting up any self hosted thing though… Just use docker compose if you want simplicity.

          • kylian0087@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
            12·
            4 months ago

            Wireguard is also very simple to setup. This would allow you to share other services you host in the future in a secure way as well.

            • bread@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
              11·
              4 months ago

              Your mom’s Tizen TV doesn’t have a Wireguard or Tailscale client, so you’re going to be the person configuring her router, or setting up a Pi or something, as well as now being the designated tech support.

              • kylian0087@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
                11·
                4 months ago

                Its not hard to setup a proxy and use a full SSL cert. A little bit more complex but much simpler for the rest of the family.

                • bread@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
                  11·
                  4 months ago

                  You suggested Wireguard, not me. I’m pointing out how it isn’t a great solution to the problem that was presented; you can safely access it remotely with a VPN, but then that isn’t very useful for sharing with others, and you can expose the service to the internet at large, but then you’re opening yourself to risk.

  • bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    3214·
    4 months ago

    Meanwhile I made a post asking if plex is bad now and most people on it said “no it’s great I paid for my lifetime pass years ago and its been the best!” Yeah, we know the truth now.

    Jellyfin all the way.

    • TrickDacy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      235·
      4 months ago

      Seems unlikely that this happened. Most people on Lemmy despise Plex and forgive all the shortcomings of Jellyfin

        • TrickDacy@lemmy.worldEnglish
          11·
          4 months ago

          Well it’s just generally buggy firstly. Glitchy UI for me especially for hours after I started scanning my media library.

          Also it has no built-in system for connecting from somewhere outside your home. You have to manage that yourself.

          Then there’s the fact that it’s got lots of security issues.

            • TrickDacy@lemmy.worldEnglish
              1·
              4 months ago

              I left the scan running for an hour or so, came back and it showed, maybe all, of my shows and seasons. However, on certain views, it would not list episodes that definitely exist. The page looked kind of broken. I thought “okay I’ll give it more time”. An hour or two later, same deal. Cleared browser cache multiple times. Nothing worked. Came back the next day and it was “fixed”. But that experience felt pretty janky.

              • interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.mlEnglish
                1·
                4 months ago

                I had something similar when I used XMBC (I think it’s called kody now) and it seems it was because there was some confusion with the scrapper to imdb and it needed some manual override file. You had to create a .nfo file or something like that, that told the scrapper the right imdb number or other exact identifier for it. I wouldn’t be surprised if the people at plex have some way to know of all the custom fixes people do and with that, when you have some issue recognizing some content, they can figure out what most people do.

                I would be surprised if jellyfin has any way to to know what the users are doing so that wouldn’t work

                • TrickDacy@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  1·
                  4 months ago

                  That’s not what this was though, because it eventually fixed itself. I couldn’t begin to diagnose the bug, but the way I have my stuff organized works in jellyfin, but something about it’s scanner and/or database seems to have issues.

          • interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.mlEnglish
            1·
            4 months ago

            I haven’t installed jellyfin, I’m never installing plex, I would just use samba shares over vpn instead of that.
            I wanted to know what’s the problem with jellyfin ?
            Is it more than the weekend-destroying linux-jankiness ?
            Because I can deal with that

            • TrickDacy@lemmy.worldEnglish
              1·
              4 months ago

              I listed three things. I didn’t have the patience to suss out what might be wrong with it because Plex required no fiddling and afaik does not have any open security issues.

    • icylobster@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      4 months ago

      Plex hasn’t been getting better, but it still does what I need. I have a lifetime pass from years ago. If I was starting today I would be a lot less inclined to pay for Plex though. They keep adding things I don’t want.

  • Gerowen@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    4 months ago

    I dropped it in favor of Jellyfin some time back, but this was a good excuse to go ahead and delete my family’s accounts.