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Appears to be Hetzner for now, wouldn’t be surprised if all VPS get affected eventually.

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The problem is that they want to route control through their own servers for making sure you can’t use some of the extra features without paying.

A few years back they dropped some clients (including the one for my old TV) because they were dropping support for legacy SSL ciphers on their servers - and those devices didn’t have support for the new ciphers. This is a pretty stupid dependency due to the way they want to do things - so I moved to jellyfin back then, and have been encouraging people to drop plex ever since.

To be fair, old ssl isn’t really ssl at all & considered to be a vulnerability by a lot of libraries.

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Without them forcing you to go through their server for user authentication it’d be a thing local to your network - where it wouldn’t really matter. Without that stupid requirement you also could just keep unsupported clients running by yourself.

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But can’t you already. Just allow unencrypted clients?

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But also on the other side, we’re talking about just media consumption, not banking or other sensitive data

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Yeah, I agree, and ultimately shame on the tv manufacturer. However many software just won’t connect so it’s not really a plex issue. If they use a library that won’t support it…

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A few years back they dropped some clients (including the one for my old TV) because they were dropping support for legacy SSL ciphers on their servers

TLS 1.0/1.1? Those were deprecated and dropped by the IETF with RFC 8996. You can’t even get a certificate using 1.0/1.1 anymore unless you are self-signing.

You can also allow unauthenticated users on certain networks, usually limited to your local nets. But I do agree that doesn’t solve the problem. I’d love to allow users to optionally use local authentication with, eg, Authelia, something built in, or an LDAP backend.

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