You can block by age rating quite easily it seems.

https://help.disneyplus.com/en-GB/article/disneyplus-parenta...

If you don't want your child watching specific shows despite an appropriate age rating, have you considered only letting them watch it while you're with them?

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fenwick67 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Allow me to give my anecdotal experience.

When my child was three, he really liked to watch 'spidey and his amazing friends'. But unfortunately, when he watched it he would emulate some of the bad behaviors from the show, pretend to be one of the bad guys and act out. Easy solution right, we just won't watch the show anymore, we don't leave him alone to watch TV by himself anyways.

Well, on Disney plus, you can't simply hide the show. Even if you remove it from your "recently watched" or whatever, it will show up in preview cards and search results and I'm categories. It became a big friction point, whatever he would see it he would want to watch it. And when Grandma would come over and babysit him, he would ask for it and she'd put it on for him despite our wishes.

So, since then, I've spun up a jellyfin server and ditched Disney plus. If we don't like a show we just remove it, and then it's simply not an option.

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juliangoldsmith 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Blocking by age rating takes out the majority of the classic Disney movies and shows. They only consider the newer CGI stuff "child-friendly".

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zpeti 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

age rating is not how I would categorise shows.

It’s also extremely hard saying no to certain shows to my kids, and it would be much easier to just not have them there.

I’m pretty sure the politically oriented people at Disney want this to your kids watch as much of the content as possible, and especially the new ones.

	▲	GaryBluto 7 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Although it's a lot more effort, if you care a lot about specific things being shown to your children, you could set up your own media server. You could digitize an existing BluRay or DVD collection and allow your kids to view films and TV using a streaming service-like interface. These days most of the solutions don't even require you to transcode the films, you just RIP them to an ISO and put them on an accessible Samba share and as long as you rename the files to something approximate to the title of the film it'll fetch the metadata for you.