Is it money, money, money, money? Already made my switch to Jellyfin
Totally agree with the article overall.
But this part isnt true for me at all:
The moment you open Plex, you’re bombarded with options that have little to do with your own media and more with what Plex wants you to watch and the way it wants you to. The home page is stuffed with its own music streaming service, a free movie and TV series service riddled with ads, a cross-platform watchlist manager, and more.
My home screen has nothing like this. Is just my local libraries. They did add some kind of “Discover” section a while back but I just disabled it. Maybe it’s because I’m on premium?
Anyway, the writing does seem to be on the wall. Eventually I know I’ll switch to something like Jellyfin permanently. But right now as a lifetime member Plex still works fine for my local content, and is more convenient than switching to - let’s be honest - a less polished experience with Jellyfin.
You just said that they introduced a feature that does exactly that, but you disabled it. So the default is a screen filled with what is effectively advertising. It can be disabled, but it is there.
And a quick Google seems to indicate this is a client side setting, so you can’t set a server side default for all users and clients. And that there are actually multiple places settings need to be adjusted to turn each of the portions of it off.
Could be more up to date options… most of that was from a quick look at multiple massive discussion threads on the plex forum from it’s introduction in 2022 demanding the option to disable everything related to discover… And dev responses at the time amounting to “lol maybe”.
I used to have Plex lifetime, switched to Emby years ago because of shit like that in Plex, before Jellyfin forked from Emby when they stopped being open source.
