End the Streaming Struggle with Plex

Re:End the Streaming Struggle with Plex by CWuestefeld on Tuesday April 05, 2022 @06:08PM (#30925703)

There's a setting that tells it not to require authentication for clients on the local subnet. Pretty much everybody should set that.

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Re:End the Streaming Struggle with Plex by uoaei on Tuesday April 05, 2022 @06:11PM (#30925736)

How/why is that toggle not part of the configuration process during installation?

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Re:End the Streaming Struggle with Plex by CWuestefeld on Thursday April 07, 2022 @10:01AM (#30944527)

I can't really speak for the Plex developers. But as an ecommerce developer myself, I feel confident that the answer is that best practice is always to make the default settings the configuration that maximizes security protections. If you, the user, want to back that off trading security to get more convenience, fine, but it's on you, not on me.

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Re:End the Streaming Struggle with Plex by uoaei on Thursday April 07, 2022 @03:16PM (#30949111)

Installation wizards ask the configurer to set various levels of security. It's not apparent that this option should be elided from any and all installation workflows.

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Re:End the Streaming Struggle with Plex by layer8 on Tuesday April 05, 2022 @07:24PM (#30926447)

Dark pattern?

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Re:End the Streaming Struggle with Plex by RealStickman_ on Wednesday April 06, 2022 @07:49AM (#30930994)

What if I want different users locally?

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