My wife and I hardly ever watch TV outside the home. Certainly not with our phones. The only time is when we travel However she does use tailscale daily. That was my point, that tailscale is easy for non-tech people. Sorry if that is confusing.
No shit. Is that not exactly what I have been saying over and over?
My first comment in this thread says clearly that if you want to run a pirate tv service for other people then you’ll want something other than Jellyfin.
Where did I disagree with you?
I’ve repeatedly pointed out that Jellyfin is great for a self-hosted home media server. If you use it as intended then its security is not an issue.
Its not for running an internet tv service for others.
I don’t really understand why this causes some people to go off on a rant about how hard it is to explain a vpn to their grandmother. That’s not something I’ve ever suggested.
You want to run an internet tv service for your MIL then do it. Thats just not want Jellyfin is for. Its a home media server.
Is this that hard to understand?
Plex clearly scans your media collection and does upload the metadata and they can add more data collection any time they want.
Privacy won’t matter if a major studio catches wind of this type of vulnerability and decides to start scanning for jellyfin instances. The subpoenas will come shortly after.
How are they going to scan a server on my network thats behind my firewall with nothing open to the internet?
Jellyfin is a home media server. it is great for that use case. It is easy to setup and use. Most importantly its not sending data about everything we watch to some company.
Stick to plex if you want to run a free internet tv service for your cousin and their kids and whoever else and you aren’t concerned with their or your privacy.
I’m into self-hosting because data privacy is my primary concern.
My wife has no problem starting the tailscale app and then starting the jelkyfin app. Its really that simple.
She also uses the tailscale exit node I run whenever she is on a public wifi. Its really a well designed simple to use app.
If your use case is to have a nice media sever at home and while traveling (via tailscale or similar) without exposing your private data, Jellyfin is great.
If your use case is running a pirate tv service for other people, then you probably want something else.
If you are going to store important data I would get a new drive. Either replace the internal or attach an external.
Also make backups.