We are also changing how remote playback works for streaming personal media (that is, playback when not on the same local network as the server). The reality is that we need more resources to continue putting forth the best personal media experience, and as a result, we will no longer offer remote playback as a free feature. This—alongside the new Plex Pass pricing—will help provide those resources. This change will apply to the future release of our new Plex experience for mobile and other platforms.
100% agree with the reverse proxy set up, it’s not hard but it is intimidating at first and just fyi, reverse proxy set up is a ton easier if you’re using swag with the drag, drop, run for a ton of apps including SSL certificate renewal.
https://www.linuxserver.io/blog/2020-08-21-introducing-swag
With that reverse proxy and SSL set up, no problems with the wife test or parent test and jellyfin for me at least.