My personal opinion is that it should be treated the same way as news, web shows, podcasts (both rip soon), ad supported tv etc. Allow to disable on the account level - problem solved.
In fact I distinctly remember that the first time Plex shoved the ad supported News feature down our throats without the option to disable it, the outcry was similar to the current one - and Plex scrambled to make it optional. You’d think they would have learned from that 
please take in the entire thread as a whole. @josephmgaffney seems to be making alot of excuses for you folks. I did not search for this content. which was the spirit of this thread. it was presented to me. That should be the priority.
at the same time there are some obvious disconnects between what you have control over as a server admin and what plex is allowed to push as their service. I can respect that there is a difference but some users want control over plex features for all of their users and i am not advocating for that.
BRB guys (i’m in a realtime voice call with the team)
For that though, that would also be the account level disable requested, correct?
I just want to point the difference between these few scenarios for Plex:
I think that sums it up. Thoughts?
I’m not at all making excuses, I don’t know how what I said could be read that way…
This does not work for me on iOS. I just reinstalled and was never given an option to “Opt Out1” and the “Discover” tab is automatically selected as a source and appears like usual.
apologies i think i confused you with another user.
No worries!
i would like to point out that i don’t want to opt out of discover as silly as that sounds. i just don’t want to be recommended porn.
I think that fits under:
right?
Edit: I’m asking because I’m hopeful we can use this thread since we’re getting replies to clarify the requirements so we get what we want, rather than having to wholesale move to another media server to meet needs. To me, search content based on content restrictions is an insufficient level of control, its more like a per-user (and home/managed user is in that):
yes. just trying to make sure the minority voices are heard as well. the “TURN IT OFF” voices are pretty loud.
@ChuckPa while discover should obviously be fixed, a simple solution would be a checkbox.
“Opt in to 3rd party content” (and have that option stick for all new features)
If that box isn’t checked, the only thing users would see is stuff that is shared with them. If it is checked, they can see allll the money related things Plex provides.(Yes, filters, no porn, etc but you get my meaning)
also FYI this content does not have a third party source. yes i clicked it to check. so this is not about third party indexing its clearly using something else to index.
Errrr, nope. I have every single online source disabled and discover still shows stuff not on my server
Totally agreed, I think Discover is probably super useful and wanted for a lot of people.
I wouldn’t even mind if Discover content for the services I select shows up in my searches, if I have Discover enabled.
What I don’t want is searching of other services being done for kids connecting to my carefully curated content.
yup i tried to get ahead of you
I think you are correct.
Account Level for complete override (and should be set by default to OFF or given opt-in/out at time of feature addition.
Managed Users can be, or NOT be, kid accounts…
However, in many ways, I’m not sure Managed Users are even needed, IF you can control the access to all outside sources at the Account Level.
For example:
I would just create multiple Plex accounts (perhaps one per family member) with logins that I know and control. I would add those accounts to my Plex Home for fast user switching.
We agree here too.
I’m not trying to take away this feature from anyone. I just want to be able to control it, whether for my kids or for myself.
That has other limitations though outside of this particular feature (unless Plex has changed something about managed vs invited to home)
Same. I just tried to delete and reinstall the app on my iOS phone and got the same results as you.
I’m not sure what these steps are referring to exactly, they didn’t work for me:
