hey everyone welcome back to my channel
whether you have a fire tv fire cube or
one of these fire sticks right here did
you know that these devices are actually
collecting data on you not only that
they're pushing interest based ads to
you they're taking up resources as the
default right out of the box when you
first get one so the first thing
everybody should do whenever they have a
device like the fire os is go into your
settings and do some changes and in
today's video that's exactly what we're
going to do so what i'm going to do i'm
going to go ahead and head on to the tv
i'm going to screen record me setting up
a new fire stick a fire stick that has
no changes it'll be exactly as it is on
your device so let's get on the tv right
now
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all right everyone i have you on the tv
as you can see now i am using a 4k fire
stick the older model 2018 but what i'm
going to share with you works on all
devices it doesn't matter which one you
have you can do these settings so why am
i doing this video you will be shocked
with how much data that amazon actually
collects on you and sells and they make
money off of you based on what you use
based on what you allow as far as
pop-ups and ads and all of that can be
changed it also takes up a lot of
resources default out of the box i'm
going to show you that really quick here
so if you look at the screen and you go
to any show you will notice that for
example i highlighted over reacher and a
new show by amazon and you can see that
it is playing now not only the video is
playing but if i turn it up
the audio is playing as well so now
that's taking up resources on your
device it's also
adding to the cache on your device which
is taking up storage it has a lot of
negative effects you may like having the
video you can even specifically turn off
the audio and just let the video play
that's up to you but it does take up
storage so
that is something i wanted to tell you
guys about you can actually turn that
off so in the future when you go to
reacher it will be that still image
that will not play just the still image
so it does save a lot of resources
especially if you have using a hotspot
or you have limited data where you are
with your wi-fi so that's something to
consider we're going to talk about how
to turn that off but not only that
they're actually selling your data
they're collecting what you are using
how much you're using what you're using
what apps where you've browsed all that
information is being sold to other
people so let's turn all that off let me
just show you really quick how to do it
so if you go to your settings section
right here the two sections we're going
to focus on and you know in past videos
i've covered all the other sections but
this is one that i haven't covered as
much as i should have and it is the
little bit of the display and sounds
just really quick on that we're going to
talk about screen saver and how it
collects cache and it's not necessary
because most tvs have a screen saver
anyway so that's going to be there i'm
going to show you how to turn that off
but everything else is going to be here
in your preferences section preferences
is really where
we're really going to delve in on this
video it's going to be a quick video but
i just want everybody to know where to
go to fix a lot of these issues you're
having if you notice your fire sticks
getting slower and slower the longer you
have it it's probably because some of
the preferences you have i wish that it
wasn't defaulted this way but it is and
most electronics unfortunately are that
way because they not only want to sell
you a device they also want to sell your
information to others to continue to
make money off of you a lot of people
don't realize that so we're going to go
ahead and go into that so let's go into
display and sounds really quick so
screen saver what is screen saver
well screen saver really simply is
this right here what you see behind you
and you can set your pictures your
family photos you can just use the
default which is what's here now the
problem with the screen saver is it
holds cash every time that screen saver
plays it records it it saves it as
temporary memory in the form of cash
now this cash is stored on your device
and it can take up a lot of resources
unfortunately you only have so much
available to you on your fire stick now
this fire stick i have external storage
so i've got plenty of space but
typically you only have about maybe if
you're lucky two or three gigabytes
after all of the built-in apps so you
want all that you can have available to
add your own apps to it to dvr stuff if
you want to there's a lot of things you
can do with the fire stick so the reason
why i say turn it off is because most
smart tvs and i would verify with your
tv that it has this has their own screen
saver it turns off it powers down for
you so that it doesn't burn the image on
your screen if you have an old tv then
maybe leave this on and just deal with
the lack of storage
but i'm going to go ahead and turn mine
off all you do is go to start time never
it's off now it won't collect that data
so that's a big deal you can free up a
lot of space if you go into your
settings and clear the cache on your
screen saver you'll see what i mean i
bet you there's over 100 megs maybe more
in there so you can go ahead and do that
on your own and i've shared on other
videos how to do that it's all done in
your applications
right here i'll just show you really
quick manage installed applications
and then you find your application
internal only because i have an external
drive
but if you go down here you can just
select whatever one and then go ahead
and just click on it and clear cache
just like that really quick really easy
so you can do that with your screen
saver and you can see how much is in
there you'd be surprised how much is
actually stored in there all right now
that you know about screen saver this is
the most important thing right here now
this is going to be the preferences
section so in preferences open it up
you'll notice a few sections i want to
focus on one
is your privacy settings the second is
data monitoring notifications featured
content so let's go over each one really
quick and why you want to change these
things so privacy settings is the first
one let's open that up there are three
sections on here your device usage data
your collect app usage data and your
interest based ads
do you really want any of this stuff do
you want them to collect your you your
data so right here the device usage
they're actually it says right here on
the right hand side use personal data
collected by the operating system of
this device for marketing and product
improvement purposes look at that right
there it says what it does for marketing
they're selling information they're
seeing what you're using they're selling
it same thing with your app usage
they're going to look at what apps
you're using for example let's say i'm
using an exercise app or multiple
exercise apps what do you think they're
going to do we're going to notice that
they're going to collect that
information they're going to sell it to
companies selling exercise equipment i
don't want those ads i don't want those
emails i don't want stuff in the mail
interest based ads same thing so this is
going to be like pop-ups redirects
things that are going to pop up on your
screen marketing based on your interests
things that you've searched for maybe on
the web or other things on your fire
device so
let's turn these off guys we don't want
that i mean who wants that right so
let's go ahead and turn them off every
one of them
no more ads no more marketing
so much better all right second section
data monitoring same kind of thing
they're monitoring your consumption how
much data are you using well none of
your business i turned that off
uh notification settings this is pop-ups
do i really want that well you can have
that in some cases let me talk about
that you can turn do not interrupt on
and that would just deactivate all of
them or you can go into specific ones
and turn them off i do like my alexi
alexa ones because i like to know when
there's new shows out there but anna
lydia i don't need that aptoide nope
atlas nope uh cinema hd absolutely not
discovery no i have a few of these
already off as you can see i do leave my
expressvpn on because i want to know
when somebody's trying to
hack into me expressvpn will let me know
that they protected me from that so i
like to know also when it's on and off i
do leave downloader on as well because
when you download apps you need to know
when it's done downloading and it will
pop up and let you know so i have that
on okay so you can go through and turn
them all off that you don't want but
keep in mind things like downloader okay
you definitely want to keep those ones
on so you know it's done downloading all
right next one featured content in the
beginning of the video you noticed that
reacher that i was sharing you with that
when you highlighted over it it would
play the video that takes up resources
that will actually slow your network
down eventually so you can turn that off
right here
you have two choices you can just turn
the you can turn the video off or you
can turn the audio off you can turn both
off it will just be a still image at the
top no more video playing saves a lot of
resources easy quick one to do okay
now i just wanted to do this video
really quick because i wanted to share
with you that they're collecting your
information to make money off of you you
you buy a fire stick you pay them now
they want to make money off you
residually so they're going to sell your
data based on what you are accessing on
their device so keep that in mind change
those settings don't let them do that to
you i mean who who likes pop-ups who
likes redirects who likes emails that
are constantly coming to you for
products that you you may have just
searched about on your fire device it's
none of their business so it's your
information it's your protection wanted
to do this quick video hopefully this
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