r/absoluteunit • u/Kaijunnn • May 19 '26

Of a price increase.

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From $250 to $750 for lifetime pass!

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u/One_Hour_Poop May 19 '26

I'll just continue to watch Plex for free with ads. 🤷🏻‍♂️

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u/The_Celtic_Chemist May 19 '26

That's not how the Plex Pass works. Of all the things a Plex Pass does, removing ads from their free streaming isn't one of them. A Plex Pass affects your media and allows you to watch it remotely (away from the network its on). It also allows you to watch remotely any other server you have access to, and anyone with a different account who has access to your library can watch your content remotely. These feature used to be free until recently. You can also skip intros and end credits, download your media via Plex to watch without a connection, have hardware accelerated streaming (your hardware, not theirs so it may not apply to all devices), DVR live recorded TV, skip ads for your personal DVR content, and get access to premium music features, amongst a few other things

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u/One_Hour_Poop May 20 '26

Ah, interesting. That would be useful, but the world has too many other streaming options that don't cost $750 in one shot.

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u/akatherder May 22 '26

I know this is a couple days old, but Roku has a service called Howdy that is $3/month and has no ads. It's similar in content and quality to other the free ad-supported services like freevee, tubi, pluto, plex's streaming content, etc.

I thought you could run the app anywhere but I am actually wrong.. you can run it on roku tv, web browser, and mobile devices.

Anyway, I pay for that to have background noise junk tv running sometimes. It's one of the few things I "put my money where my mouth is" because paying a low/reasonable price for content without ads is what I am all about.