The Enshittification of Plex Is Kicking Off, Starting with Free Roku Users

Plex, a famous way for dads to show off their (okay, our) movie and TV hoarding acumen just got incrementally less useful for certain users.

The Roku free-for-all is officially over, and more pain is coming soon.

Enforcement of a shift signaled long ago has started, beginning with people who use Roku devices to stream movies and TV from non-paid Plex servers. If that sounds insanely granular, it is. Plex is complicated, and that aspect of it is only getting worse as it gets less and…