Hehe yeah, like I wrote myself: it probably won’t make a difference, but at least I tried.
If every customer they have did the same, they might revert, but most people don’t care I guess.

Next step is a boycott and then I sleep better at night.

Honestly, it’s always a balance between my morality and convenience/price.

I find it harder and harder to find any company at all with a clean enough record to be “worthy” of my business.

What Proton has done now goes beyond what I am willing to support, and I dislike the treatment of workers more than I dislike the increase in usage of LLM.

At the same time, backlash is usually an efficient way to force companies to change course, which is why I bothered for the first time ever to formulate an email to complain.

Will it make a difference this time? I doubt it.
But I’m hoping for a “No Mans Sky”-turnaround as I quite enjoy their product suite.

Time will tell.

I sent them an email asking to confirm or correct these allegations.

Not really expecting anything other than coorporate BS in return, but then I’ve atleast let them know one more person dislikes this shit.
Not just the slopware, but also the blatant attack on workers rights.

Unless they appologize publicly, I’m not renewing in May either. Credit card is already removed to stop auto renewal.

Sure, but I’ll use myself as an example: I don’t want any of my services exposed to the internet, so Tailscale/Netbird/other Wireguard solution is the best choice.
Some family members have their TV’s online with no Tailscale or media box, so that solution is out.

Sure I could route all their Jellyfin traffic to my me via an exit node or VPN, but then we’re way deeper into this than my 60-something mother would ever want to. And I am on the hook for both her and my uptime. So phone/tablet/PC only if they don’t want a streaming device with native support.

The built in functionality on Plex is really practical, and practical is good for us creatures of comfort.

So I’m not disagreeing with you, just explaining what edge Plex still has over JF.

(And yes, I could do what you do and run with Cloudflare, but I don’t want to pay for it and I don’t want any traffic via third party I don’t trust)

Some paid for lifetime and enjoy it. Or prefer the layout. Or prefer the easier sharing if data with family and friends.

There are still reasons to run Plex over Jellyfin for some, but not many of they keep going the way they are.

I just built a new rig and was soooo close to going mITX, but I just didn’t want to deal with the cramped build space. And the selection of MoBo’s was abysmal compared to ATX and mATX.

I still always get a bit jelly when I see people do it, as they are clean AF. Good on you!

And as others have said: you’re taking the criticism on the chin like a champ. It’s fun to experiment with weird things and you found something that works for you. That’s all that matters.

Enjoy the weekend!