Plex is starting to enforce its new rules, which prevent users from remotely accessing a personal media server without a subscription fee.

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  • warm@kbin.earth
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    15 hours ago

    Isn’t that the point of major version upgrades? To make breaking changes?

    • MaggiWuerze@feddit.org
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      11 hours ago

      Its also possible for a webserver to offer two versions of an API. Add a new one that needs authentication, mark the old one as deprecated and add a checkbox to disable it. Then clients can update to use the secure one and if you use and unmaintained client you can enable the old insecure api