The management executive who took this decision deserves a punch in the face.

Lol, here in India it is 100 INR (1.2 USD) yearly. Thank god for regional pricing.

100% agree. I’ve found mrwhostheboss channel to be the worst when it comes to clickbait.

The free version of plex doesn’t allow downloading, only allows streaming. Downloading is a huge feature IMO.

It’s a paid service, so the only way to enforce that unpaid users cannot search is to take a search request and check if it is coming from your account

That’s not the same as logging.

You literally need to associate your requests to an account to make basic functionality like this work.

They just need to check the session of the user on the fly during the search operation. Once the search is done they don’t need to persist any record linking the search and the user.

Is this confirmed by the developer?

Who the hell would want to wear crocs for hiking?