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1 year agoI first started looking into an XBMC replacement when my OG Xbox died and I thought there must be some new FOSS replacement to put on some Raspi. Must have been 5 years back? Lots of “experts” sent me to Plex, I took one look at the EULA and said no effing way.
So this is not news to me that they keep and run stats on all my files, watching patterns etc. I have a feeling most users filled up their media servers with torrents and questionably sourced files, not legal rips, and I found no reason to opt into something like that even if my files were all legal. Jellyfin is mature enough at this point for my needs, I know it’s not perfect, but it’s all local.
When I cruise around the net I sometimes use Mullvad as an ass-guard.
When I connect to my own server I have SSH, and if I ever need to access a local port I use port redirect over the SSH tunnel.
As a backup of a backup, if I am at a site that blocks access to remotes on port 22, I have sslh running on port 443 in front of my nginx, intercepting TLS for nginx, SSH and openVPN (running in docker) all on the one port, so I have options…