Bob Fry wrote:

OK, right, maybe not "much" better. Some assembly required. But you
do get your privacy. The only reason Tivo sends your requests back to
HQ is to peddle the info to marketeers. Oh, right, they consolidate
it first. For now.

So? None of them have my email address, I'm on every do-not-call list
there is (no junk calls in at least a year), and I recycle the catalogs
that get by my DMA mail preferences before I even bring them in the house.

They know I like "Family Guy", "Mythbusters", and "The Colbert Report".
Every person I know also knows this, and now so do you. Big deal! G

They probably also know I skip all the commercials.

Jeez, I hope they don't figure out how many of us pause to get a good
look at Kari? Or maybe I _do_ want them to know... G

If you're a privacy nut, I'd be much more worried about supermarket and
credit card purchase databases than TiVO.