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Plex’s crackdown on free remote streaming access starts this week
(arstechnica.com)
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this post was submitted on 26 Nov 2025
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Not OP, never used Plex, I make accounts for people and send them the address, username and password, that's it.
As for the work I had to do, I run Proxmox so I copy pasted a command from the PVE community scripts, and set up a reverse proxy.
Making accounts / passwords for other people seems like a bad enough idea that I’d rather pay for PlexPass.
Would you rather allow everyone access to your server?
With Plex, everyone has their own accounts they are responsible for. They create the account and set the password. You give those accounts access.
I couldn’t stand the onslaught of “what’s my passwords.”
I've only had that issue like two times, and I've got 10 users on my server. And people can change their own password.