Besides completely disabling Online Media Sources, which I have now done to avoid being charged, is there a way to disable Rentals but keep Online Media Sources enabled?
There is not.
You seem to be OK with Plex-provided media, why the desire to disable rentals in particular?
Are you thinking about Managed Users abusing rentals? According to the FAQ only the Admin Account can use the rental feature.
https://support.plex.tv/articles/faq-rentals-on-plex/
Can Managed Users watch rentals?
Currently only the admin account of a Plex Home can purchase or watch/play rental titles.
We do plan to investigate the feasibility of expanding those capabilities to other members of a Plex Home, with additional (optional) protections in place. We do not have specific details to share as to when that expanded functionality might be available, sorry.
I assume the option to rent doesnât even show up under a Managed User.
Good Luck
Chris
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You can disable it from search results if you just donât want it to pop-up and be clicked on by accident when looking for other films.
Click the âslidersâ icon and you can turn off Rentals as a result (unless you have online media sources already fullly disabled in which case it wonât show up - it doesnât for me).
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To avoid anyone in my Plex Home from being able to rent something resulting in a fee to me.
A setting to Enable/Disable Rentals would be nice, allowing me to keep other sources enabled without the risk of rentals occurring.
It was already mentioned above that your Home members cannot rent. Unless they manage to impersonate you by switching to your user account. Which you can prevent by putting a PIN on your account.
Thanks for clarifying the current restriction.
We donât pin-protect our accounts to streamline use, so while maybe only my account in our Plex Home can purchase a rental the entire family has access to it if they wish.
When I disable the Online Media Sources, they donât show up in Plex at all for my user, making it my workaround for the time being.
Thanks, though it isnât just for searches but the possibility of purchasing.
Ya, I appreciate that. Iâm hoping to not need to add a PIN to my account in my home. Kinda a pain to have to enter it when I want to watch something. 
Just keep in mind that without a pin, every managed user of your Plex Home can switch to your account, change every restriction youâve applied to them and mess with your server and account settings (e.g. buying a Plex Pass, Tidal membershipâŠ).
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My family do not mess with my server, they sit down to watch the main tv from our apple tv. I have a pin in my main account but we all know what it is. They do not know my username and password and do not have access to my MFA. So the ask is simple to just allow us to have the possibility to just turn off rentals altogether, shouldnât be a difficult ask. Let us choose what we display in our own server at home. So if you can just implement a setting to enable/disable rentals and let us control the settings on how we want to set up our server. Let us have the control as we have with most everything elkse, shouldnât be a difficult ask.
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Because I donât want to see them as an option should be a good enough reason, right?
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Has anyone noticed that âPlex Rentalâ titles no longer provide info/links to other services offering the same title? I would like to disable rentals for this reason.
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Add a pin to your main account (consider it an admin account) and create yourself a managed account that doesnt have a pin.
This would be a reasonable solution if there was a straightforward way to duplicate a user to keep watch status for the new account. I have seen a post or two about doing this all via the database, but it really shouldnât be that hard to do.
One reason is that, ever since the addition of rentals, search is majorly broken in that it often offers to rent me items that are on my Plex server without telling me they are on my Plex server. Every time Plex offers to rent me a movie that I already own (and that it knows I own), it injects frustration.
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For anyone that stumbled across this post using a web search re: rentals like I did - hereâs the method to turn off Plexâs online content. See âEnable/Disable Accessâ mid-way down page (as of March 2024)
https://support.plex.tv/articles/video-on-demand-overview/
Web search brought me here. I presumed Iâd first find a support article, or even an announcement post in plex.tv indicating this new âfeatureâ.
Instead, Iâm brought here to a forum post, asking for the same thing. Disable rental option individually.
Iâve not rented individual movies since 6-8 years before Blockbuster went out of business.
(Thanks Netflix!) Iâm not going to start now. Iâm curious how many US people actually still rent individual movies with the plethora of streaming subscriptions available.
My router based ad block list prevents me from seeing Plex ad-supported content anyway so this just made me sit down long enough to disable Plex streaming content.
Thanks Plex for still allowing search of other âfreeâ networks or subscribed services though - at least prevents me from having to load justwatch on my mobile device.
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Thanks @JamminR, Iâve disabled âMovies & TVâ and that seems to be working, no more rental offers! I donât watch Plexâs content anyway, so no loss.
I was searching for this specifically.
I am trying to use Plex to track media across services (because I thought they wanted that?) and I searched up a movie I saw is on Max andâŠonly saw rental options on Plex.
I guess if they told me it was present on my favorite service I wouldnât rent it, but, yeahâŠIâm already paying for it. I find this deceptive and disappointing.
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