Plex sunsets ‘allowed without auth’ setting.
In Winter 2023, Plex introduced an ad for clients accessing a local Plex server without logging in to Plex’s authentication servers (or Facebook, et al). It advertised the benefits of using a Plex account to enjoy a more enriched experience, though a simple press of the back button quickly dismissed it.
That ability was scrapped this week, now requiring clients to authenticate with Plex’s remote auth servers. All clients tested were known to have successful connections with a local Plex server prior to this week’s change.
Roku Ultra (2x)
Firefox on Ubuntu
Firefox on MacOS
The following tested the same, but are not confirmed to have succesfully connected without logging in:
Chrome
Plex iOS app
Edge
Roku TV
Read through this a couple days ago but now going through my server to check, is the setting ‘List of IP addresses and networks that are allowed without auth’? Because I’m on the latest linuxserver docker image and still have that setting in the server network settings.
Yeah but some clients don’t care about that setting.
Yea, the setting is still there as is the documentation page on how to use it (last updated in 2019). It’s just stopped being honored.