Plex, a famous way for dads to show off their (okay, our ) movie and TV hoarding acumen just got incrementally less useful for certain users.

The Roku free-for-all is officially over, and more pain is coming soon.

Enforcement of a shift signaled long ago has started, beginning with people who use Roku devices to stream movies and TV from non-paid Plex servers. If that sounds insanely granular, it is. Plex is complicated, and that aspect of it is only getting worse as it gets less and less accommodating toward its free users. In fact, let’s just go ahead and call it what it is: the enshittification of Plex.

To zoom out, Plex is a flexible and robust media cataloguing and streaming platform. If you don’t instinctively use it, you’re probably not a data collector with external drives f

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