In an email to customers who run Plex servers at the large German hosting company Hetzner, Plex said that access will be blocked next month. It’s not clear if Hetzner is the only hosting company this applies to, but several customers confirmed that they received the same email.
Has anyone here on Lemmy got this notice? Self-hosting is still in the green, but with this precedent who knows what Plex could do later.
Their preferred method of logging into your own home server by going through their website should really give you pause when reading about how anti-piracy organizations pressure them.
There have been numerous stories over the years about how anonymized data isn’t really anonymous.