Honestly if you do know what you’re doing that’s still true. They’re really good at looking like good code which makes it not always obvious when it’s not, even to an experienced developer.

Or maybe more bluntly, they’re really good at volume, not necessarily quality.

Welcome!

Plex logins go through their login server so you’ll also have login throttling and probably other bot protections.

Definitely.

But I think more than copium it’s them understanding their users. It’s advice for people that will figure out how to run Jellyfin but won’t stay on top of updates, setup a waf, use a firewall/reverseproxy to limit access, etc. There are surely a lot of those that just one clicked an installer etc and for them it’s good advice.

I’m sure undermining your officers like this is great for morale and discipline of the troops under them. Great job Dumb McNamara.