Honest question, because I know multiple people who are not looking to jump ship since they already have the Plex Pass.

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    10 hours ago

    Problem is access outside your home for family and friends.

    There are serious security gaps that make it a non starter to expose to the internet.

    I’ve been using Jellyfin ever since they forked out of Envy, and honestly, it’s the biggest complaint that I have. It is incredibly difficult to make it available to friends and family who are on various devices, networks, so on and so forth.

    Whereas Plex “just works.”

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      3 hours ago

      What security gaps in particular? I did have to reverse proxy to get it to https, are there additional security issues?

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      8 hours ago

      Why not use a zero trust VPN like netbird? It is fully open source.

      You can create a reverse proxy that requires a password to get through to jellyfin. I think there is a limit of like 5 for this though (unless you pay or self host).

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        3 hours ago

        Because clients would probably fail if there’s an authentication layer on front that they’re not expecting.

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      6 hours ago

      Wait what? I have been sharing my jellyfin using a cloudflare tunnel to the endpoint.

      Could you elaborate on the security gaps? How can I pen-test myself to see if I’m vulnerable