I’m a Jellyfin guy, but charging money for a product or service isn’t what “enshittification” means. As the article says this is just removing a loophole for legacy apps on older devices. The pricing model hasn’t changed.
Enshitification is the specific process of capturing a supplier/consumer market through short term subsidies, squeezing out the competition, and then squeezing the suppliers and consumers directly.
Increasing prices alone isn’t enshitification. But increasing prices after sustaining artificially low prices for the purpose of creating a monopoly or quasi monopoly is enshitification.
Plex most definitely was providing a good quality product but was not generating revenue, and has little to no competition (Jellyfin is a bit debatable) as a result. Was it intentional or just incompetence? Hard to prove either way. I’d say the biggest argument against enshitification is that Plex is mostly a product instead of market space hosting suppliers and consumers, like Google, YouTube, AirBNB, Uber, etc.
There’s plenty of evidence for enshittification, like emailing all your friends about your viewing habits and how buying the Plex pass doesn’t remove advertisements
I’m a Jellyfin guy, but charging money for a product or service isn’t what “enshittification” means. As the article says this is just removing a loophole for legacy apps on older devices. The pricing model hasn’t changed.
Doesn’t enshittification also entail the removal/reduction of previously-existing features/functionality?
Enshitification is the specific process of capturing a supplier/consumer market through short term subsidies, squeezing out the competition, and then squeezing the suppliers and consumers directly.
Increasing prices alone isn’t enshitification. But increasing prices after sustaining artificially low prices for the purpose of creating a monopoly or quasi monopoly is enshitification.
Plex most definitely was providing a good quality product but was not generating revenue, and has little to no competition (Jellyfin is a bit debatable) as a result. Was it intentional or just incompetence? Hard to prove either way. I’d say the biggest argument against enshitification is that Plex is mostly a product instead of market space hosting suppliers and consumers, like Google, YouTube, AirBNB, Uber, etc.
There’s plenty of evidence for enshittification, like emailing all your friends about your viewing habits and how buying the Plex pass doesn’t remove advertisements
Why are people seeing any advertisements on media they are hosting?
Same reason you need to subscribe to a service to stream your own hosted media through plex…
It’s a “bug” apparently
https://forums.plex.tv/t/ads-being-played-on-my-personal-content/934086
The free shit with ads is separate from the Plex server.
Can you explain how “emailing all your friends about your viewing habits” is enshittification and not just a feature you don’t like?
I’m really starting to hate the abuse of that word.
They could have made it peer to peer somehow but are charging just for being a middle man, which is kind of the definition of enshittification
It is paid
productiveproprietary software. Use Jelyfin if you want a free OSS media server.Nothing I said indicated I use it. I was correcting OP for saying this isn’t enshittification.