r/DisneyPlus • u/grooves12 • 7d ago
Discussion Frustrated by the lack of parental controls... considering cancelling. Are there other options?
Overall, I'm happy with Disney Plus as a service, but I am strongly considering cancelling the service because they recently added a slew of terrible Youtube content to Hulu that is rated PG, but has a ton of inappropriate content in it.
If I lower my child's content profile to G, instead of PG, almost the entire age-appropriate library of Disney titles disappears. You can't block Hulu content, nor can you block individual titles, so I am stuck with what now becomes a useless service for me. Why has there been no progress on improving parental controls despite the countless complaints I see about it online?
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u/annedroiid UK 6d ago
Do you have a proposal for how they could fix this? What a parent considers appropriate is such a subjective topic, how is Disney supposed to know what you specifically consider appropriate for your child?
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u/grooves12 6d ago edited 6d ago
3 options:
- Allow parents to turn on/off Hulu content from kids profiles (or any profile really)
- Allow parents to block indivual shows. (This is what nearly every other streaming service does.)
- Or the reverse. Allow parents to set a lower content rating threshold, but manually override to allow titles with a higher rating. For example with a profile set to G, a parent could go in and authorize all PG-rated titles they deem appropriate. (This is how Apple handles parental control on the App store.)
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u/Ok_Age4039 18h ago
Well yes it is a subjective topic but they could start with not adding shitass YouTube videos
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u/PepsiPerfect 6d ago
Companies like Disney pay a lot of lip service to the idea of giving parents control, but it's almost impossible to govern that much content, especially when it comes from different eras when ratings meant different things (a movie that was rated PG in 1980 is very different from a movie that's rated PG now, for example). I don't think there's any easy way around having to monitor the content yourself.
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u/grooves12 6d ago
Every other streaming platform allows parents to block individual titles.
The big problems really began with the hulu merger. The Disney content is mostly fine, but the Hulu content is not. Unforunately, they shoehorned the Hulu content into the Disney app and don't allow you to turn it off on kids profiles.
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u/CherylRoseZ 1d ago
Could you just cancel Hulu? It’s not included if you aren’t subscribed to it right?
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u/grooves12 1d ago
I would, but I also use ESPN+ and they don't offer a bundle without Hulu. Standalone Disney+ and ESPN doubles the cost over the bundle with Hulu.
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u/CherylRoseZ 6h ago
Then I guess you have to decide if it’s more important to pay less or only allow your kid to watch with supervision
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u/wraithkelso317 US 6d ago
Can I get some examples here?
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u/grooves12 6d ago
"Toppers Guild" but there are quite a few of these brain rot YouTube format shows with content that isn't child-friendly yet is rated PG. They also constantly get recommended on profiles that are limited to PG Content with no way to block them either from recommendations or completely.
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u/LuciferGonz 2d ago
Contenido de Youtube en Disney? ¿Como qué por ejemplo?
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u/Happy-Cockroach-2813 1d ago edited 1d ago
Diana and Roma, Blippi, Ryan’s World, Lankybox, there’s more. They started on YouTube and now their content is on Disney+
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u/wasteplease 14h ago
Wait is Hulu included in Disney Plus? I think I'm still paying separately for it.
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u/grooves12 9h ago
They have bundles or separate subscriptions. If bundled, it all does up on the Disney Plus app.
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u/coolcat1993 1d ago
I just wish I could pick what comes up on our Home Screen, my 3 year old loves Nightmare Before Christmas but by March/April I’m sick of watching it. Told her they took it off Disneyplus and then bam on Home Screen the next day 🤦🏼♀️
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u/MrMichaelJames 6d ago
Yeah, don’t let your kid watch without being there. It is a guaranteed to work parental control instead of relying on someone else to be the parent.