Probably because it works well, and has working clients on everything at this point. For some, a one-time fee was worth it when it was cheaper.

Sharing is also easier, as your friends just sign up to a plex account and you share your library with them. No need to send them an ip address and port, or fqdn that you have to maintain if your isp changes your ip address. It has its benefits, tbh, and the core sharing features still work for streaming. All the extra crap you can just turn off.

That why I think its still popular.

Send a sternly worded letter!

And revanced youtube for android does the same.

Here’s a link directly from plex website.

Specifically, this bolded section:

IMPORTANT NOTE FOR CURRENT PLEX PASS HOLDERS:
For users who have an active Plex Pass subscription, remote playback will continue to be available to you without interruption from any Plex Media Server, after these changes go into effect. When running your own Plex Media Server as a subscriber, other users to whom you have granted access can also stream from the server (whether local or remote), without ANY additional charge—not even a mobile activation fee.

Yep. But it gets called enshitification, yet the platform still scrapes Metadata reliably, still streams to any client reliably, and is still easy to share with friends and family wothout having to manage ip addresses or ddns. To me, the ‘enshitifcation’ people are complaining about is literally not wanting to support devs for a product that does what you need, well.

Not quite. Only if users want to stream from a server that doesn’t have a plex pass, in which case the user needs a plex watch pass.

If you (the server owner) have a plex pass, all users (even free accounts) can stream from you without a pass.

If you (the server owner) do not have a plex pass, then the users need a plex watch pass to stream from you.

Essentially, they’re making sure one side or the other has paid, but free to free is being stopped.

Local stream isn’t affected by this either, only remote streaming. As someone who has had plexpass for 12 plus years, it doesn’t affect me or my users.

Yes, because the core mechanics of their platform is media metadata management and streaming. As long as those work, and my users don’t have to pay anything (because I have a plex pass lifetime already), then it has no effect on me or my users.

All that extra stuff can just be turned off.

Eh, tbh it still does the core basics of streaming my content and Metadata management, so I don’t really care about enshitification of ‘extra’ features that I never use. It’s still the easiest way to share media

Fair point. I havent heard much or anything, really, about them.

They gave everyone hope that the shooter just missed, but he was never going to hit, since he shot nothing. That ear scrape was so fake leaving zero scar or scab after just a week.

Your users are getting that because they have a plex account that they use to stream. They might stream from just you, but they could stream from any other shared server they’re connect to. That’s why they get this email.

If you have a plex pass and are a server owner, they can ignore this and keep streaming from you for free.

If they try to stream from a server owner who does not have plex pass, it won’t work unless the user themselves have a plex watch pass, which let’s them stream from any server that doesn’t have plex pass.

Since you have plex pass, your users won’t be impacted at all.

Actually I never record videos and rarely take pictures with them. It’s the feature i use the least.

I use them for music, phone calls, and AI requests (like having a Google home you can ask at any moment). Once and a while I’ll ask it to tell me what I’m looking at to listen to it describe something. That feature uses the camera to snap a shot of what your looking at.

When I walk somewhere and need to use maps, it tells the directions to me as I walk which is pretty neat.

I mean, maybe of ots done well. I have the meta raybans and love them, mainly because I can listen to music as if I had earphones in, and talk on my phone with them, record, and take videos.

If it had a UI to select options and could display info too, that would be pretty sick imo.

At good American local prices. Hey, can’t pay the workers any less so I guess product prices have to go up at the source. Oh wellll.

Or, the southern part of the US dies the fuck off, and the average IQ of the US increases at the same time.