Roku Features You Need To Turn OFF Right NOW!!! | You're Being Watched

Roku is a pretty amazing device and I'm sure you guys already know this but did you know that you're actually being monitored on this device data is being collected and sold to third-party products so in this video I'm going to show you features to turn off to help protect your privacy and also to help boost performance of your Roku device now this is going to work on any of the Roku devices so go ahead and grab your remote but before we get started don't forget to subscribe and hit that notification Bell so you don't miss out on future videos like this one I plan on doing some more Roku videos and I will leave a playlist down below for you guys to check out all those videos as they are being published so with that said let's go ahead and get started all right I have my home screen loaded up right here I'm not going to go into any particular order however I do want to hit this first one I'm going to hit up on the up screen we're going to get to settings we're going to click the over button and then I want to go down to privacy this going to be the first one right here this is going to obviously cover our privacy advertising is the first one that we want to look and personal ads this is the one that is going to be collecting the data and giving you personalized ads now if you like personalized ads that is fine but just keep in mind they are monitoring what you're watching what you're clicking what you're doing on this device so that way they can create a profile for you and give you personalized ads to me I don't want that so I'm going to go ahead and click turn mine off don't personalize my ads so the next thing we want to do is we're back out of here we're going to go to voice and then I want to select Channel microphone access and instead of having it prompt I set mine to never allow because I never use the microphone on the remote itself and so I don't even want that microphone to be accessible at all now if this is something you use go ahead and leave it on but for me I turn this one off let's go ahead and back out of this one we have got speech recognition this one is on I'm going to turn that one off also because for that one it's also storing data it's going to be storing your speech so that way it can process it and create a profile for you so it can recognize you better if you find that feature helpful go ahead and leave it on but for me that's not one that I want to have on because I want to clear my profile I don't want any kind of profile presence on this device so I'm getting rid of that one too so let's go ahead and back out of this one get back to our settings and then let's just go ahead and go down the list so the next one here first one we have got networking now if you guys aren't familiar I did do another video talking about roku's tips and tricks where I go through and I talk about a lot of cool things you can do with Roku this is not that video go ahead and check that one out I will leave it in the description so you guys can check that one out it'll also be in the playlist too but this one right here for networking I'm going to go ahead and we are going to click on bandwidth saver so this one right here I do have off but if you do have monitored internet meaning that you have some kind of Internet cap where you can't go over a certain amount and it's going to start slowing down your internet now I don't have that so I went and turned mine off but if you do have that with your internet service provider where there's some sort of cap you can go ahead and turn this feature on and that is going to help you save your bandet so you don't hit those caps but for me since I have no caps I'm going to go ahead and turn mine off uh going down the list here we have got themes now I've just got the standard Roku theme pack right here but you can go through and pick a lot of cool different themes um I'm going to go down here and let's go ahead and select this one we're going to say set this theme pack and it's going to change the background of my Roku and everything it does and it's also going to change the audio too so when it's playing audio it's going to be themed for that it's a pretty cool thing that you can do so we've got nautical ones you can go through here this one says it's you know they popular theme packs and look and find one that you want if you want to add a little spice to your setup right here here's a new one too I haven't seen this one before let's go ahead and select this one change in the theme pack you can revert you can remove it you can do different things to it if you want to and then let's go ahead and hit that home button and we have got a new theme there in the back with all of our apps loaded up all right I'm going to hit the up button we're going to go back to settings we're going to go back to themes and another one that I wanted to point out you can change the wallpaper if you want to if you don't want to actually change the whole theme you can just change the wallpaper looks like we have some featured ones here if you want to do maybe a holiday themed one we've got some options there too that aren't going to change the whole theme but just that wallpaper in the background okay the next one down here is screen savers this is where you can pick your screen saver that you want now I have noticed that these can lag up your system a little bit um slow it down so what I like to do is just turn mine off and that is also too because my TV has a built-in screen saver so I don't need the redundancy of having two screen savers and this one slowing my system down if you do want a screen saver you know pick something simple like a clock or something like that but I'm going to scroll down here on the side and we're going to go to screen saver start times you can disable the screen saver which is what I like to do or if you do want to have it up you have the options of adjusting your timing right there this is going to help prevent your screen burn in if you guys are familiar with that if you have an LCD TV where there is the potential issue of screen burning so this is going to help with that if you don't have a screen saver at all on your TV I would recommend leaving this on but for me since my TV automatically turns on a screen saer I am disabling mine just to help save some resources and help provide my system to run a little bit faster all right we are going to back out of this we have got display type we have got accessibility so here is a spot where you can turn on captions on your shows you can either have it be always on only on replay or off now it can be kind of a cool feature if you do want to have it on replay so that way if you do hit the replay button on your remote meaning it jumps back 10 seconds that will automatically kick on captions but that might be kind of annoying too so here is where you would go to turn off captions if you don't want it to automatically kick on when you do a skip back 10 seconds on your remote so I'm going to go ahead and turn my captions off let's back out of here we're going to go down to audio we have got our menu volume so as you are clicking through the menu we've got all the beeps and the noises that's something that I preferably don't like so for me I'm going to go ahead and turn that off by default you saw it was set to medium can turn that up if you want to leave it on if you want to but for me I don't want any extra kind of noise so I leave mine off on this one too okay we're going to back out of here we're going to go down to guest mode so guest mode is a pretty cool feature if you do have maybe a rental or you share your device with other people you could turn on guest mode that is something that I covered in my other video for tips and tricks so I will leave that over there if you guys want to check it out guest mode is a pretty cool feature if you do want to utilize that that's something you can control through their website too we're going to go down to home screen so home screen is what we see I'm going to go ahead and hit the home button right here so this is the home screen we see all of our options there on the left hand side for live TV search what to watch featured free we've got sports streaming maybe you don't want all that stuff so let's go ahead and go back to settings and we're going to go down to home screen and then from here we can turn on and off what we want to see there so for me I don't have live TV set up so I'm going to say hide that I don't want to see that anymore uh what to watch these are just options of what I want to watch I'll leave that one there uh shortcuts I don't know here are a couple shortcuts we've got ad channels we've got TV off shortcuts right there I'll leave those sports like watching sports so I'll leave that one there featured free so let's go ahead we turned off live and when we hit the home button right here we can see that our option under home under search that live TV feature is gone so this is what is going to be controlling that right there I'm going to hit up again we're going to go back to our set settings we're going to talk about payment method so here is where you can set up a credit card that can be used for purchases through Roku now I would not recommend setting up a credit card because let's say you set up a card on here you want to sign up for Netflix or HBO Max I mean I guess it's called Max now and you use your Roku payment to pay for it so now instead of it going through the process of Netflix or whatever streaming service you choose it's going to be going through Roku so later down the road when you try to cancel it may get kind of confusing you may go to your Netflix account to try to cancel it but then realize oh wait I signed up through Roku so I would just recommend not setting up any kind of card on here and doing any kind of payment method to keep it easier go straight to the source set up whatever kind of payment that you need to do any kind of subscription that you're going to be signing up for and then just come back here log in through Roku it's going to be a lot easier down the road and help you with any kind of confusion okay so keep going down the list we have got Apple AirPlay we're not talking about that legal notices privacy policy if you guys want to read any more about that you can do that there privacy we already touched on this right in the beginning we've got help and there are a few more here in system that I wanted to talk about some things that I would recommend changing all right going down the list here in system I would recommend taking a look at software updates run any updates that may be pending on here you always want to make sure you are up to date uh let's see Power we have got auto power savings so for here you can have your device automatically turn off after 20 minutes if it's not being used now if you're watching a show you're watching a movie it's going to stay on it's not going to turn off after 20 minutes of watching a show but if you find that you're walking away with some kind of inactivity you're coming back 30 minutes later and it turned off and you don't want that to happen here is where you would go to turn this feature off you can say after 20 minutes of inactivity turn off my Roku I'm going to go ahead and leave this on for myself cuz I like the option of saving power and not relying on myself to make sure my Roku is turned off okay backing out of here we've got Advanced system settings so this is where you go if you need to do a factory reset maybe you're getting rid of your Roku maybe you're giving it to somebody else you want to factory reset it or maybe you're just having an issue with it maybe it's bugging out on you here is where you would do a factory reset we can also do a network connection reset control my mobile app we've also got Advanced display settings so this is where you would go to change all of those settings so getting all those features turned off is great but you know what's even better than that free stuff that is why I recommend you guys checking out this video right here talking about all the free content that you can get on your RW device if this video is helpful give it a thumbs up let me know that you liked it as always don't forget to subscribe for more content like this and I will see you guys in the next [Music] video

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Length: 10min 51sec (651 seconds)

Published: Tue Jan 09 2024