• non_burglar@lemmy.world
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    23 hours ago

    There are two ways to increase profits:

    1. Charge more for the same services
    2. Remove services or features from paid subscriptions

    Plex has done 2 a few times now.

    If you like being told you can stream remotely and then later have the feature yanked and slapped behind a paywall, then by all means use Plex.

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      12 hours ago

      I bought a lifetime license on day 1 iirc. I wanted to support the software that was so good and better than everything else at the time. I have had zero features yanked.

      I want to stream remotely, share my library, and watch on any device I come across, so I’ll use Plex.

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        12 hours ago

        That’s all well and good for you, but they pulled many rugs out from under free users. This is arguably bad, depending on who you ask, but they most certainly did flat out lie about, which is the core issue.

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          11 hours ago

          There’s no “rug pulling” for free users. Expecting a service run by a for-profit company to keep everything free forever is naive and just plain dumb.

          This is arguably bad, depending on who you ask, but they most certainly did flat out lie about, which is the core issue.

          What did they lie about exactly?