That is bogus. Search uses wildcards.
What is “adult” for me might not be “adult” for you.
And BTW, that 5 year old didn’t find “Adult Content.” They found mainstream R rated content.
Plex, you really don’t get it do you??? How can you take things “seriously” if you don’t understand the problem?
Why should a ‘server admin’ be able to decide what anyone else can look at on their account (other than the media the admin is directly responsible for)?
Can you find any examples following Plex’s intervention? Or is this more hyperbole?
True.
I am not a managed user and can still find ‘adult content’ from Plex (not my content) without using specific adult keywords.
Putting aside what most of us think of as adult material, my grandkids can easily find other ‘adult’ material from Plex even with everything turned off that I’m able to turn off.
That Tech crunch article I posted made it clear where Plex was going and it isn’t to provide software to manage local content.
How about rolling the feature back to a version that does not include it? I do not appreciate this being forced upon me. I do believe this is an invasive feature. I do not want my searches to go anywhere but my server. That is why I have a server. I do not want targeted ads or anything else someone at Plex thinks I need.
I have no interest in using any other streaming providers. If I cannot achieve viewing my own content and only my own content with Plex, then you are pushing me away. Not me leaving on my own.
i have been pushing this so hard here and it never gets through. people want absolute control over “their” server. even though this content is coming from plex’ server. lol.
I distinctly remember Disney+ had this same issue when Hilary Duff wanted to approach Lizzy McGuire with a more adult tone to the show and fans were on board, given the children who grew up with the original show are now adults, parents themselves. However, Disney+ failed to have foreseen this dilemma, having to deal with mature content on their new platform, that this back and forth with Hilary and the writers caused it to fall through.
Disney were insisting that this show be on their Disney+ platform and be for all audiences, family friendly, possibly dumbed down rather than Hulu. Hilary and the writers were willing to be on Hulu, given that Love Victor was already on there, as long as they had the creative freedom to do the show for mature audiences.
Disney kept being stubborn and the whole Lizzy McGuire reboot flatlined and got trashed. Flash forward to now and look. Because of the Fox entertainment acquisitions, Disney now has had to face the fact that filters and pins were needed for their Disney+ platform, rendering that creative spat with Hilary Duff and the original writers of Lizzy McGuire completely unnecessary. It was all power play.
Separately, there was also parents asking Disney for more granular settings for the content in the Disney+ catalog, regardless of it being age appropriate. Some parents wanted absolute full control of which shows they wanted their children to watch and there was this forever running discussion of how that was overreach, that parents should just trust what’s in the system or don’t subscribe.
There was indeed lots that Disney had to learn from all of this.
The point here is that this whole having control issue should always be an ongoing discussion and customers concerns should be taken into consideration. Companies can either participate and be an advocate for their customers, making sure the proper tools and resources for customers are implemented to tailor their specific household needs, but this should never be one sided.
Because they currently CANNOT decide with Discover.
You are thinking in terms of what you find objectionable, not what I find objectionable. I don’t want to see “Dawn of the Dead” and yet it still shows up.
Not one single person has asked for what you are saying.
We just want an Account Level “Disable” switch.
I don’t want to fight with Plex to get them to accept what is “objectionable.”
I just want to decide on my own.
Right now that is EVERYTHING outside of my local content, and probably always will be.
Why is this SO DANG difficult for Plex to understand? Seriously.
You and I both know this is because local content management is not in their future vision.
Again, to repeat myself.
See that Techcrunch article. No need for me to repost it.
clearly the account quoted is asking what i have asked at least twice now in this forum. server admins should not control content restrictions for shared users access to content outside of the admins provided content. maybe that will be more clear.
the recommendation of hiding discover from the sidebar and the proposed addition of hiding “more ways to watch” from search literally solves your problems. your outrage is coming off as just outrage for anything new.
Huh ?
Clearly my use scenario is different from many as my shared users only want to see my content. This is separate to managed users ofcourse who get what I give them (well, until now).
I clearly have misunderstood what you said - it is early here 
and they should be allowed to decide that for themselves. that is literally all i have said. the user quoted here is not being receptive to that. they have stated over and over again that they want account level control over their shared users. that would literally bite into any chance plex has to monetize content. i know people are against that statement but it is the reality we are in. i too am an admin. when a new feature comes out i send a message to all of my users explaining the feature and explaining how to turn it off from their account. ultimately leaving them the choice. that is the correct implementation. not for me to go to every account and disable all ad supported content. how silly is that?
Well, not silly at all in this current situation
My shared users, by nature, are happy for me to control that.
As I said, might be unique to my scenario.
Edit - still seeing adult content showing up in More Ways To Watch and even in Plex’s own library.
and to paraphrase the previous user, who are you to decide what is appropriate for everybody you share your server with? lol. goes both ways.
unfortunately for plex your shared users are their customers when it comes to movies & shows, live tv, and now discover and more ways to watch. that makes plex the admin for that content and not you. so it is up to plex to allow the users themselves to turn features off and not you. does that make sense?
edited to get the plex product names right
this is still being actively worked on. they have made that clear. entries are disappearing slowly, debbie does dallas does not show for me now for example.
I accept that is happening, slowly. and it takes time for caches to be cleared globally. I also accept there will still be bits that slip through. However, you don’t need to use adult terms specifically to find that material as suggested.
However, what would be the media response and indeed a governments response to an organisation that knowingly allowed a feature in development to remain active across all users that was capable of delivering adult material to users unsolicited that violated censorship laws.
I can think of one organisation locally that did something sort of similar some time ago. Wasn’t pretty.
Edit - please know that I bloody love Plex in general. The support, the apps, the ability to share family videos to relatives across the world but that
TechCrunch article really does point in the direction that local content isn’t in the future.
Ok yeah I will make no statements on the law or any regulations.
