Private / anonymous plex
reddit / selfhosted

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bigjoe2019 · 2023-09-27 17:46

Greetings my fellow redditors,

I am puzzling the possibility of hosting a plex server, with
reasonable privacy / anonymity (from my isp and plex inc). What I have
tried:

Reverse proxy at home, with port forwarding. Not a big fan - started
getting smashed by bots and crawlers on port 80 / 443.

Hosting plex in a tiny vps (linode), tailscale back to home network
for storage. Works OK, but cost wise quite similar to a dedicated
seedbox. Also, money trail leads back to me in terms of payment for
the vps.

Jellyfin locally behind reverse proxy. Cloudflare dns (and proxy) to
my local ip, with WAF rules to block traffic not from my country.
Local port forward rules to reverse proxy host ONLY from cloudflare
edge ip’s. This felt very nice and secure, however jellyfin clients
are a bit of a barrier. No clients for samsung or lg tv’s without
jailbreaking tv’s (this is for parents - so jailbreaking not ideal).
Also cant get it working on my apple tv with swiftfin since ios17?

Any other ideas from the community on how to achieve this?

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Stetsed · 2023-09-27 18:01

So firstly you cannot get an anonymous plex install simply because
plex is proprietary and we don't know what they are doing and with the
recent announcement they will be banning people hosting on hetzner
they are clearly tracking.

Secondly cloudflare's TOS is merky about whether such services are
allowed and most people haven't gotten banned however be warned you
are operating in the definite gray of the cloudflare TOS.

Lastly there is Infuse which also supports apple TV and jellyfin which
I know is available on there but maybe check with the swiftfin people
about why you can't download it on the Apple TV as it should be
possible. Not sure about LG TV/Samsung TV as I have no experience with
them.

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ELKER54 · 2023-09-27 19:16

Just use Jellyfin

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ComprehensiveLuck125 · 2023-09-27 19:46

Putting Jellyfin behind cloudflare in free tier is breaking TOS. Are
you looking for ban?
Free tier is max 100 MB for HTTP/HTTPS.
Take pfSense and expose Jellyfin via haproxy with Lets Encrypt Cert
and Suricata IDS.

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jkirkcaldy · 2023-09-27 19:55

It’s not grey, it’s 100% against their terms. Whether they will ban
you for it is another thing.

However you can set up your own with a vps, a vpn and a reverse proxy.

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jkirkcaldy · 2023-09-27 19:59

You can set up your own version of a cloudflare tunnel. Get yourself a
vps with a large traffic limit, set up a vpn between your vps and your
media server, set up a reverse proxy on the vps. Point your domain at
the vps.

Jellyfin will be more private, but Plex has more features, some of
those features include calling home with an unknown amount of data.

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lesigh · 2023-09-27 20:21

Lol. Sounds like you want us to help you setup a paid Plex

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ElevenNotes · 2023-09-27 21:07

100%. All anon, no tracking, no payment tracking (why payment?).

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TinyMicron · 2023-09-27 23:04

Skip Plex and go with Jellyfin