We use our library to house family things such as home videos and our kids recitals. These are younger children, mind you. These are not children who need agendas and sex shoved down their throat. That being said, is there any way to restrict content that is being forced onto MY home tab? I’m not looking for the solution to just tell devices to remember the last location I was in. I am looking to remove sexual and or agenda driven content from MY Plex media server.
Look, if you don’t have kids, or you don’t filter what your kids can see, whatever, I don’t care. You can have whatever you want on your home page. Personally, I don’t believe Plex should be able to put content in my server without my consent or at least a way to block that content from being shown. I get that you want to distance yourself from the piracy discussion by adding Live TV and Movies & Shows with commercials that probably drive profit - I can remove those pins though. I cannot remove the home pin, and therefore cannot remove Trending content filled with age inappropriate sexual content.
Feel free to tell me I’m an idiot for not finding the setting on my own. That won’t hurt my feelings if it means the setting is there. If the setting is not there, it should be. Plex doesn’t want to be dragged into the piracy conversation, but they will expose my children to things they do not need to be exposed to yet.
Am I a little heated right now? Yes. It doesn’t help that it’s 90 degrees here either. Am I willing to discuss in a rational manner? Yes. But don’t tell me what is being displayed to my children is appropriate and okay.
If you let your kids use your own account, they get to see what you’ll get to see.
So… if the questionable content is based on your own or a shared libraries, you could create managed accounts for them and apply a restriction profile (e.g. for small kid, older kid or teen).
If the content is part of Plex‘s online media sources, you can disable those in your account settings (or disable it for managed users if you go with managed users for your kids):
Plex has, in the past, gone to pretty big lengths to prevent minors from seeing adult content. A large feature Discovery, is still pretty much disabled for Managed users because there was a tiny slip-up where managed users could eventually tab through to see some adult content. Enabling adult content on your server even disables some features to prevent that from slipping through to manged user accounts.
This works. And it’s on me. I didn’t realize you could create kid accounts like that. I’ll put a pin on my account and then just switch to it if the kids are not around. I’ll probably need to create separate libraries with the kid’s movies and then movies for the adults. Thanks for the help on this!
The one feature I’d like to see is the ability to auto login managed users, just to remove a step from the login and also reduce the opportunity for the kids to try to access another account or start guessing PINs.
Seems like an obvious feature, however the managed users don’t get the UX to enable Automatically Sign In.
You can auto login managed users. The auto login option just needs to be enabled from the admin account first, but once that is done, Plex will auto login to the last account that was used.
Be aware that some movies/shows slip through the cracks when using restriction profiles on managed accounts, so check what is displayed in Plex before giving access to the kids.
For example, movies such as Ben Hur, True Grit, and The Andromeda Strain are rated G and viewable with the “Younger Kid” profile (the most restrictive). All have scenes you may not want viewed by young children (the chariot race, gunfights, deliberately not comforting a crying baby).
Unfortunately, it is not possible to further restrict what can be accessed by the Younger Kid / Older Kid / Teen profiles.
An alternative is to create a managed user with profile restriction = none, then apply restrictions based on ratings and labels.
For example, you could create a “kids” label, apply it to desired movies/shows, then use the “allow only labels” restriction on the managed account. The account could then see only the movies/shows to which you specifically added the label.
Another example is to use a combination of ratings and labels to limit access. Deny access to the obvious ratings such as R & NC-17. Then create a “not4kids” label, add it to the “exclude label” restriction, and apply it to the media you wish to block.
