TiVo tempts privacy police

I intend to get a Tivo this Christmas, anyway, no
matter what info they try to get out of me. I'm a
huge 80's fanatic, so if I got my Tivo, I'd have it
customised to be red & pink, afterwhich I'd Tivo
500 music videos all from the 1980's, from Aha to
ZZ Top. Then, I'd take my Tivo with the program
I'd created, and bury it all in a Time Capsule for
everyone to see and hear what the year 2010
could bring for that wonderful decade that was.
Oh, and just in case, I wouldn't even tell Tivo I
ever was an 80's fanatic, even after I finished the
program, so they'll have to surrender to the music
before they figure me out!

I do not have TiVo or a dish. But i do have a mute button on my remote control, that is immediately pushed the minute any commercial starts.

I love my tivo..have had it since it inception. I really don't care who knows what I watch or why I skip commercials. Marketing data is gathered from us everyday in so many ways you can't count. Be serious...and a little less paranoid....what are they going to do...blackmail me for my tv choices. I can't believe the paranoia out there....The same folks unplugging their phone lines are probably looking out for black helicopters and watching alien autopsy cover ups on their tive ;)

Tivo isn't the only company that does this. Amazon does the same crap. I happened to be writing a paper on a sensitive topic for a sociology class of mine, and when I happened to log on to Amazon, lo and behold...there were a group of books that Amazon "thought" I would be interested in...I wasn't searching for any books on the topic at Amazon, but using various search engines such as Google and Ask.com...so HOW did Amazon know what I was looking for...or more importantly, when I log OFF of Amazon, that should be the end of it, I consider what Amazon does a violation of my privacy...just letting people know what goes on once they log off of Amazon.

Attention:
By david Posted at 11:44AM on Nov 9th 2007

Hey David,
I pay no service fee for Tivo. I have the "Forever Service". And what the hell are you smoking??!!! They don't pratically give Tivo's away anywhere. They're at leat $250. Where do you get your info from? You need the get a clue you stupid f**ker! You definitely have an Alligator mouth and a peanut brain. Knuckle dragger!

the only way i will watch a tv show is if i can fast forward the ads.

I have always wondered what the big deal was about demographic collections by advertisers. So they find out I like to watch sci-fi; seems to me that'd just encourage them to put more sci-fi on television! And if they know I like books on the Amazon jungle and send me an ad about such a book, I feel nothing but helped out.

Far, far better than to make me watch a tampon commercial over and over, which is the situation we are faced with today, don't you think?

There are some commercials I like and watch but most of them are skippable. I think Tivo service should be free if they're going to peddle the info to marketing companies.