Maybe what's happening here is you're using a term differently. When the OP says "privately" he means through a transaction where MRED restricts it to themselves for financial reasons, and you're using it as "I'm selling my house myself, privately."

If you were selling your own home as the owner, Zillow would have no issue listing it, because you're the seller and you're going to deal with any buyer. But if you're having MRED sell your home you're no longer the seller (that's why you hired an agent to handle it). MRED doesn't get to limit who can make offers to only people working with them as a purchaser, and then advertise on Zillow's platform. That's Zillow's call to make.

You have a right to choose any agent to sell your home (as the other guy who replied said), but you don't have a right to be on Zillow.

Zillow has the right to decide what they want to list, too. It's called the right to refuse service (I'm sure you've heard of it).
So unless MRED is an organization exclusively for black Muslim gay men from Nicaragua to sell their homes you're not going to get anywhere here.

Okay, but it sounds like you want to use MRED's service (where a potential buyer has to buy with a MRED agent -- because you are selling with an MRED agent) and still be advertised on Zillow. Zillow doesn't want to list homes that have that sort of buyer restriction on them.They want a buyer to be free to use any realtor for their side of transaction. This isn't an ethical dilemma, it's a business decision. Zillow is saying if MRED wants a website where they can list homes for their "insiders" scheme they need to make their own site and not use the Zillow brand as essentially a private advertising platform.

Because it's not your decision. Zillow is a private company and they can choose to exclude listings that are not available on the open market if they want to. Really... shades of "demanding freedom of speech on non-public forums" here.

MRED could make their own real estate search and advertising site and only show their "in-network" properties -- but they don't want to do that because, besides the actual expense of building and running their own site, they don't have the brand recognition that Zillow has. They just want to piggyback off an existing popular site.

Can't speak for Tizen or Roku, but on Android/Google TV and Amazon FireOS you can use Smarttube (for now at least).

To which I would respond, "You aren't following the convo". This isn't about a local server. It's about all the people who run Plex servers in their home that are used by friends and family that live other places (like their elderly parents in another state). With Plex, these people getting connected is a piece of cake. You just open the app, link your device with the app code (or sign-in with your Plex account), and you're off to the races. Same as if they were using Netflix or HBOMax.

Now, you can set up Jellyfin with a simple reverse proxy and run over SSL, which makes it almost the same (the Jellyfin user would have to enter the FQDN of the server on the app setup), but a lot of homelabbers nowadays seem to think that's not good enough, and you need a full-blown VPN tunnel. So now we're telling people to install a VPN client and configure it to connect back to the host user/Tailscale network, and then entering the local IP (or Tailscale IP) of the server on Jellyfin's setup. Is it possible to use Wireguard/Tailscale with split tunneling, so only the Jellyfin app uses it? Or are we in a situation now that the remote user has to turn the Tailscale connection on/off before they open Jellyfin, or they proxy all their streaming apps through you?

All that to connect to this "easy" steaming setup. Oh, and they aren't on a computer. The user in another location is doing this with that little remote that came with their streaming device more likely. That is my point.

No, I didn't say that. Free Plex cannot use hardware accelerated transcoding. It's only software transcoding in the free Plex level. And that's fine for me. Even with a Plex Pass now, I still run Plex on a Xeon-D system with no discrete graphics card, so I still have only software transcoding. But with eight cores hyperthreaded I can transcode anything 1080p or below and still keep a respectable idle power draw. I can't transcode 4K, or tonemap HDR, but I only watch that content on devices that support direct-play anyway. And you can't stream video on free Plex, but you can still stream audio. So I would still be able to enjoy my music library in my car, or walking late at night as I do now. Even with all external access gone I still get to have Plex as a video library browser with a streaming-service level presentation of titles and metadata, on all my screens within my own home. That is why I did all this. I would be without Skip Intro and Skip Credits, but those aren't the important functionality for me.

I started all this as only being able to watch my media on my desktop PC, using Zoom Player with its 10-foot UI. I had a TV tuner card with gave me a good remote control (for a PC). But I wanted to watch stuff on the larger TV in the other room. I couldn't afford a second PC just for that (this was before streaming devices really took off). Next was running a DLNA server and accessing it from a Blu-ray player. But when I moved to Plex, simply having the ability to transcode and watch any media I wanted, instead of having to limit myself to what the DLNA client device supported, was a huge leap. This is years before Jellyfin existed, let alone reached the quality level it is now. You didn't even need a Plex login to use the server then.

I run a Jellyfin server alongside my Plex server today, and I would recommend anyone new start with Jellyfin. But since I paid $90 for my Lifetime Plex Pass almost nine years ago I don't have any reason to dump Plex. If this is about the ad-supported content, you can turn that off. If it's about data sharing or stupid social media features, you can also shut most of that down. I'm using third-party clients for both Plex and Jellyfin more now, so what their developers do (or don't) with the first-party apps isn't really effecting me much.

You can still stream music without paying, it's only restricted for video. For personal use you also have the option of the cheaper Remote Watch Pass to cover your remote video needs.

I mean personally I leave my house to get out, not sit around watching videos like I'm at home. Plex for me was originally about not having to build a full-fledge HTPC to watch media on the living room TV. The only time I remote watch is really when I'm out of town staying at a hotel with a Fire Stick.

This is the result of the major database refactor they did for version 10.11. They have merged a large PR to address other performance issues caused by this, but scanning performance is not really included in that.

They aren't going to address it until the next major version after the one they have not released yet. It's only in discussion stage now. So it''s gonna be a problem for probably another year (?) given the development pace.

You realize you've described exactly how software was sold back in the '90s and early 2000s, right? Today software companies claim they can't do that because it doesn't guarantee a regular enough revenue stream (to please their shareholders). I think the issue is more it requires them to make continuous improvements to entice customers into paying for upgrades for newer versions, rather than sitting back and collecting rent on your usage with no more effort (like Adobe). And as the software evolves it reaches a point most people consider it feature complete and don't care about upgrading unless an OS update breaks the old version.

Ah, I was looking at the Firefox instructions.

Firefox on Windows/MacOS

        1. Visit TenBlueLinks.org (this page) in Firefox.
        2. Right-click on the address bar and choose "Add Google Web".
        3. Open the hamburger menu in the top right corner, choose "Settings -> Search".
        4. In the "Default Search Engine" section choose "Google Web" from the drop-down menu.
        5. Done!

Firefox might show "tenbluelinks.org" as the source where it got the instructions, but all your search queries will be sent directly to Google, not this website. The source code is open, technical details are available below.

The above instructions are about changing this through the Default Search providers. That's not editing a custom search shortcut. But, maybe you are not aware of the bookmarklet-like feature? It likely predates you using computers.

I do see the switch mentioned in the Google Chrome information (&udm=14):

Chrome on Windows/MacOS

        1. Open "Settings -> Search engine -> Manage search engines" or copy-paste this in your address bar: chrome://settings/searchEngines
        2. Next to the "Site search" section click on "Add" button.
        3. Fill the details in the dialog window:

        Search engine: Google Web
        Shortcut: @web
        URL: {google:baseURL}search?q=%s&udm=14

        The last line is very important.
        4. You will see your new search engine "Google Web" in the list. Click on the menu icon next to it and then on "Make default".
        5. Done!

You'll have to forgive me. If you're trying to avoid Google AI and you're still using Chrome you've already lost the game. /trollface

I think you're missing that Plex has been around for a long time now, and the alternatives you are thinking of were not an option back then. Jellyfin has only been a viable competitor with client support and features for a couple years now, and you still have to set up your remote access solution yourself. Plex works well for people who are less technically inclined, and the people they want to share that access with. It would be logical for there to be a large installed base of people with established servers from back then.

Whenever I hear someone brush off secure remote access on Jellyfin with "just set up Tailscale and connect your devices" I have to wonder how many elderly relatives they have walked through doing that with a streaming device.

Joe Sixpack isn't going to do follow instructions like that. And the Boomers will be more concerned using some site they've never heard of will cause their bank accounts to be hacked.

I think there is (was?) a switch you could add to the URL that would bypass the AI response in the results page. So you could set a Firefox Quick Search shortcut with that entered in the template URL. I set up Firefox with UBlock Origin on my mom's smartphone when she complained about all the ads. I believe she changed to using DuckDuckGo's browser on her own later on.

You can still use Plex without paying for it. Reddit just has this meme idea you can't use Plex without hardware acceleration (just don't use some consumer NAS appliance as the server). The only two "killer features" that are behind a paywall are hardware accelerated encoding and (more recently) remote video streaming. I have a Lifetime Pass, but I've never had a system that supports hardware acceleration, and I use remote video streaming so rarely simply saving the content before I leave home on a laptop's local drive would be acceptable (I used to do that actually, since my upload on my Internet used to be too poor to stream HD video in good quality anyway). Yet I've somehow managed so enjoy my server for over 12 years.

Step 1: Add your AI to your popular search product.
Step 2: Take away the ability to search without using the AI.
Step 3: Tell all your investors "Look how much people are using our AI! They must love it!"