Honest question, because I know multiple people who are not looking to jump ship since they already have the Plex Pass.

  • kiol@discuss.onlineOP
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    6 days ago

    Any particular API security issues? Never considered exposing Jellyfin, but can certainly understand how it simplifies access.

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      6 days ago

      This was the security report from awhile back:

      https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin/issues/5415

      Lot’s of things have been fixed but theres still much to do. The issue was broken down to smaller issues for tracking and I check back every once in a while.

      Even if there were no security issues, exposing jellyfin is also another can… choice of:

      1. open up ports
      2. cloudflare (and potential ban for video content on the free tier, even if caching is disabled)
      3. vps with enough bandwidth
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          6 days ago

          I think the difference is Plex offers a web address you can use for logging into Plex and for sharing it with others. So, you get a friendly admin interface with oauth for logging in from other popular services as the Plex user getting setup.

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          You do not but you’ll be severely bandwidth limited. It’ll go through their servers if a port can’t be opened.