Tubi

Is Tubi safe?

Yes, for most people. Tubi is Fox Corporation's free streaming service: films, TV series and live channels paid for by ads, with no subscription and no card. Fox is also buying Roku: Roku's stockholders approved the deal in October 2026, and it is expected to close in the first half of 2027. Nobody can message you through Tubi. We score it 59/100, above Pluto TV (55) and Peacock (55), mainly because its children's features are stronger.

The trade-off is data. Tubi's privacy policy is frank that it sells or shares a lot of what it learns about you with advertising companies, and the account has no second login step.

What Tubi does with your data

Tubi's App Store label looks light. Only identifiers and usage data appear under "Data Used to Track You". Contact info, user content, search history, diagnostics and other data are collected and linked to your identity, but not listed as tracking. Google Play lists device IDs, email, user IDs and app activity as shared with other companies for advertising or marketing.

The privacy policy, effective 1 July 2026, goes further. Its California notice lists the categories that Tubi "sold" or "shared" with advertising technology companies and advertisers for targeted ads: identifiers such as name, IP address, email and device IDs, contact and financial information, age and gender, purchase history, your activity in Tubi's apps, and rough location. The same categories go to other Fox companies for marketing. Tubi also says it may add information from "commercially available sources", social media services and ad companies. Some Tubi apps carry Nielsen's measurement software for TV ratings.

Because the policy discloses more than the label, we score privacy on the policy. There are real controls. Tubi treats a Global Privacy Control signal as an opt-out of sale and sharing, and it publishes how it handles requests: in 2025 its median response time was 14 days. It does not respond to Do Not Track.

Tubi for children

This is Tubi's strongest area, and it is better than most free services. A parent signs in and creates a Kids Account. Each one has its own age rating (Younger Kids or Older Kids), its own watch history and an optional 4-digit PIN that stops a child from switching back to an adult account. Raising the rating needs the parent's password. Kids Accounts only appear on a device while the parent is signed in, so logging out hides them.

Kids Mode is the quick option for a borrowed phone or TV. One tap switches Tubi to its family library without any account. Leaving it needs a password, PIN or an age check.

Tubi says it does not build ad profiles from Kids Accounts or Kids Mode. Children still see ads, but chosen from the content setting and what they are watching. The policy says identifiers collected in these areas are used only for internal operations. Children under 13 who try to register are sent to Kids Mode instead, and their details are not kept.

The gap is the main library. Tubi has a large horror and thriller catalogue, and a child on an adult or guest profile can find it. Use a Kids Account or Kids Mode every time.

Account security

We found no reported breach of Tubi accounts, and most viewers never store a card. Protection is still basic. Tubi's help centre describes sign-up with Google, Facebook, Apple or email, and an email account needs a password of only 6 characters. We found no two-step login and no public bug bounty for Tubi or Fox on HackerOne. Signing in with Apple or Google lets you use their two-step protection.

The viewing data settlement

In a class action under the US Video Privacy Protection Act, viewers alleged that Tubi passed what they watched to third parties without consent. A federal judge refused Tubi's request to move the case to arbitration in February 2024. Tubi then agreed to pay $19.99 million to users from June 2021 to August 2024, without admitting wrongdoing, according to Cord Cutters News. A private settlement is not a regulator's finding, so it is context only in our score. We found no fine or order from the FTC, a state attorney general or a data protection authority that names Tubi.

How to use Tubi safely

1. Give each child a Kids Account and set a PIN, or switch to Kids Mode before handing over a device.
2. Sign in with Apple or Google, or use a long, unique password if you register by email.
3. Turn on Global Privacy Control, or use Tubi's Your Privacy Choices link, to opt out of sale and sharing.
4. Refuse the tracking prompt on iPhone, and reset your advertising ID on Android.
5. Ignore anyone who asks you to pay for Tubi. If you watch on a TV, check the privacy settings of the TV platform too, such as Roku.

How we scored it

The regulatory record (85) is Tubi's highest factor, since no regulator has fined or ordered it. Privacy (42) is the lowest, because the policy sells or shares profile and viewing data with ad companies. Scams and harmful content (75) is helped by Kids Accounts and Kids Mode, and security (57) is held back by no two-step login and a short minimum password.