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Plex’s price hikes prove I was right to switch to Jellyfin (www.androidauthority.com)
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[–] 2 points 3 months ago (1 child)

It certainly doesn't cost what they're charging. They have a cache, a relay and an auth service. I'll grant them some more allowance for an active security team. They've wasted manyears on features nobody wants and have eliminated any feature that costs them any amount of money to maintain if they can't make money off it. (sync, client serve, yada yada)

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (1 child)

    It certainly doesn’t cost what they’re charging.

    That's how services and products work. If they sold their product at cost, they'd go bankrupt. They're actually charging peanuts for the service they provide.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    Their entire infrastructure required to do that proxy and caching is at most 10k a month. Thats a couple thousand users.

    What you're actually paying for is their research and development of all that add ridden content they're trying to shove down your throat. Then selling your data, and selling you and your watchers ads.

    That's some really expensive peanuts you're suggesting

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