UPDATE UPDATE UPDATE.. Check Your Firestick now!

0:00 update after update after update. All you get on a Fire Stick Fire TV device is damn updates. So, in your My Fire TV device, I probably get an update every other day, if not every day. Let me check for updates today. I haven't checked yet today. Okay, we're good. But last checked Wednesday, no updates. Well, I actually had an update yesterday. So, what do they do with all these updates? What they're doing, they sneakily turn a lot of things back on again. And whether you're a first-time user of a Fire TV device or you're a regular user of your Fire Stick Fire TV device, you could be a professional, probably no more than what I'm doing. It's worth checking everything like this is turned off. So, what we're going to do first you're going to do is hit that follow button, hit that subscribe. Then

0:46 you're going to go over to your settings and we need to check all these things are turned off because every time it updates, many things get snuck back on again, and you don't realize, and they do it deliberately. So, what you're going to do, the first one you're going to go to in your settings is they keep moving this about as well. Preferences. Okay. In here, we're going to start at feature content. The first thing to do is turn both of these off. This is that massive advert you get on the home screen. That home screen, as it loads up, you get a big advert or if you push up on your remote is a huge advert. It plays a video and then it plays um audio really loud. Turn them off and then all you'll get is an image. Best tip I could ever give you. Okay, next one. Data usage monitoring. So in here,

1:33 you want to turn this off. You don't want them monitoring the data consumption on your Fire TV device. Why would you? Then privacy settings. You want to turn off cookies and scent, device usage data, collect app usage data, and interest based ads. You want to turn all of them off because most of these is how they monitor your apps you use, the data you use, your device, everything you put into that and then they give it out especially the cookie consent out to it's about 130 partners which they share your information for. They can all go. One more you really need to do is go into your applications then automatic offload. You want to turn that one off as well. It's going to be one of the quickest videos of everything you need to turn off on

2:19 your Fire TV device, but these are the ones you need to do. So, you turn that off as well. So, get that one turned off and brilliant. Once you've done that, check underneath. Get yourself a VPN. Um, I put a link directly underneath that will make everything easy for you, keep you safe online, and you are done. Brilliant. I've been Doc Squivy. Make sure you hit that follow button and I'll see you soon.