Lifetime Plex Pass subscriber, here.<p>This is a boneheaded move on their part. They didn't <i>have</i> to create this extraneous infrastructure of data analytics and web proxies for sign-ins, they could have just stuck with a competent media server platform that was lean and mean. I bought a Plex Pass because I wanted to support ongoing development, and my household members gladly paid the mobile activation charges because Plex provided a really great experience all told - and competitors (like Jellyfin) simply weren't comparable in features or stability to Plex at the time.<p>Fast forward to today, and I'm honestly considering migrating to Jellyfin despite being a lifetime Plex Pass subscriber. Seeing the odd article about them disabling accounts of larger library sharers (like those sharing with a large family or terabytes of streams a month) already gave me pause enough to setup Wireguard to try and hide remote streaming metrics, but these changes really make me want to get off Plex wholesale. Between its database corruption on migrations, its overly-aggressive content scanners overriding curated file metadata and embedded artwork for whatever AI slop it prefers from elsewhere, and the container explicitly stating it relies on file locking for its database (and therefore not widely compatible with shared filesystems, <i>which is a key point of using containers and container orchestration</i>), I'm honestly kind of done babysitting a piece of software that used to be fire-and-forget.<p>These changes mean I'll be spending even more time onboarding or troubleshooting other users of the library, which limits my enjoyment of it. Good software shouldn't require constant maintenance and support, and Plex is not - in my subjective opinion - good software anymore.