How do you restrict Managed User access to the free Plex content

Plex Media Server
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Hi,

I’m trying to setup a managed user for my kid. I tried the ratings first but I would like a little more control so I created a tag, kid-safe, that I will add to all allowed tv/movies

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I then added ‘kid-safe’ to 101 Dalmatians.

Now when I login to my kid’s profile i’m greeted with 101 Dalmatians, right above ‘Endless Bummer’ (one of the free Plex movies, not mine!) amongst others.

How do I remove access to all the free tv/movies?

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There’s a dedicated menu item in your account settings where you can configure which online media sources should be available – you can enable them for yourself and all managed users or only for yourself.
https://app.plex.tv/desktop/#!/settings/online-media-sources

PS:
If you control what media your kids can see using a “restriction profile” instead of manually assigned labels, those restrictions will also apply to the content from Plex’ video on demand etc.).

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the online sources can only be restricted by rating as they do not have labels. You don’t have to use the profiles but you would need to only include G or exclude others for example

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Thanks. Does restriction profile = setting allowed ratings? I’ve set allowed ratings and that seems to have worked.

I want to use labels so I can exclude stuff he won’t be bothered about anymore, eg <5 stuff, would adding ratings override that though?

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the exclude takes precedence if set.

Case 1
Exclude R
Allow KidSafe.

if a movie that was rated R had the label Kidsafe they would not see it

Case 2
Allow G, PG
Allow KidSafe

if a movie that was rated R had the label Kidsafe they would see it

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I’m in the case 2 at the moment, but I’m guessing if I don’t tag some G rated local stuff as kid-safe it will still appear?

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if you specifically allowed G then yeah they will see it even if not labeled kid safe.

Allows are additive. Excludes subtractive.

8

I’ll just exclude the free content for now then and use the labels

Thanks for you help :+1:

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Doesn’t seem to work

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I’ve done

That worked for me, thanks!

Me just been lazy now, am I able to default that Home screen to multi-line ‘recently added’ or other stuff?