Hm, I’m not so certain that they are stating you should be using a VPN, I think they were addressing someone who was quite concerned and a VPN does mitigate all concerns usually, so it’s simple and common advice for them folk to hand out.

His wife and kid(s) were apparently in the audience, this was probably very scaring for the kids if they saw it.

Anyways crazy you’re at negative votes, not very ethical of the downvoters

I think the only advice I have seen is to use jellyfin behind a reverse proxy (instead of directly exposing it), because they are hardened.

Where have you seen this official advice for a vpn?

Same with Plex, except more serious, they have data breach after data breach and I read comments here of people applauding the response and probably most will continue to use it.

If your threat model includes being scared people are gonna guess whats on your server and try playing it, then thats up to you, personally It’s not something I’m worried about in contrast.

Thank you and yikes

This is fear mongering. Feel a duty to call it out so it doesn’t scare someone out of experiencing the joys of Jellyfin.

I agree addy or simplelogin, etc are great.

I started using an email forwarding service when I setup a new email a few years ago and I still have zero spam, because as soon as one service sends one too many marketing emails that I can’t turn off, I simply disable the email alias I used with them (and enable it again if needed down the line).

This is the only way because no website, etc is gonna keep your email address safe and secure, because they don’t really care about you.

Using aliases everywhere also makes it hard to track you based on your email (assuming services share this between each other, advertisers, etc).

You must have a lot of trust in the email forwarding service you use though and I probably wouldn’t use them for anything very important like banks, etc.

Really that often? I guess their good and quick response has been engineered through lots of experience…

At some point, can you keep yourself using a service that constantly gets breached? I’d just be worried when the next one is coming, based on this record (that i havent verified for myself, gonna trust u bro).

But most of the people (specially the plex ones) don’t have the technical background

Seems weird to say, because I had to setup Plex one time on a server for testing and it was a bit harder than setting up Jellyfin, so I wouldn’t call most Plex hosters dumb.

Plus they are still hosting something on their servers, they would still need to secure it in some ways?

p.s., the “Jellyfin is insecure dont host it on the internet” is just fear mongering at this point…

I agree, but only up to a point. If you like to discover loads of music because you listen to tracks all day at work for example (which can make you get bored of tracks/albums quickly when you play them a hundred times in one day), its much harder to do so when you have to use a different service for recommendations & listening.

Not so much that I haven’t done that myself, but it is more time consuming.

So tl;dr its the discovery part thats a pain, at least for me.

(Speaking from experience)

Edit: i just clicked on the post and it covers discovery, ima have to read that later.

The updates are just really slow so we dont have to deal with them in our life time (evolution).

To naked sleepers: if there is a fire, are you gonna dress first or evacuate the building in your natural state?

That and similar scenarios makes me a dressed sleeper.