Manage My Subscriptions: you can skip this. It will make sure you don’t end up making in-app purchases accidentally. In-App Purchases: This is an important one if you have kids using Fire TV stick. I like to set it up as, Ask Before Opening (recommended). So, it’s safe that way.Įxternal Market Links: Certain apps have links that redirect you to the Amazon Appstore for the installation of other apps. Do note, with this option only the apps you have installed from the Amazon Appstore will be automatically updated and not any third-party apps you might have sideloaded. Here you will see the following option:Īutomatic Updates: Keep it ON. Choose and then click the option Applications. Open the Firestick Settings again on the Fire TV stick. Now, that you have disabled auto-play video and interest-based ads, now it's time to disable few options in the Amazon app store settings such as making sure you don’t end up making in-app purchases accidentally or turn off Appstore notifications.
Setting only the Video option to Off is the same as setting both of them to Off, since audio will not play without the video playing. If you prefer, you can set only the Audio option to OFF if you want to see the ads play without any sound, but know that there will not be any subtitles in that scenario.
This will force auto-playing video ads, ads to just be a static photo slideshow. Turn off both Allow Video Autoplay and Allow Audio Autoplay. Next, go back to the Preferences menu and select Featured Content. Click Data Monitoring again to turn this setting off. Now, press the back button again to go the Preferences menu and choose Data Monitoring. Here, turn OFF the following options: Device Usage Data and Collect App Usage Data.Īlso, just to be on the safe side, I’ll disable Interest-based Ads. Open Preferences, click Privacy Settings and you will see several options. Go to the Firestick Settings from the home screen. Well, while the Firestick privacy settings are ‘ON’ by default, Amazon gives you an option to turn it off from the settings. If you bought a new Fire TV stick or got the recent update, you might have noticed a lot of interest-based ads, and video autoplay. And today we’ll show how to change the user interface in one of the settings below. And now, if I go to the main homepage, you will see these are the video ads that appear if you scroll up to the large ad banner at the top of the Fire TV home screen.ĭon’t fret, this is Smart DNS Proxy. You will note on the right side of the page it’s telling you what version of the OS your Firestick is running, for me, it’s Fire OS 7. Fire OS 7 on their latest Fire TV sticks and many users have become especially frustrated with ads and Amazon recommended content.įor example, if I go to Settings, scroll and click on the My Fire TV tab, in the menu that opens, click About and then scroll down to Check for Updates.
Amazon recently rolled out the New Fire TV Interface i.e.
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