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Re:Google to Acquire Nest by Karunamon on Monday January 13, 2014 @04:17PM (#7053355)
The only ads on Tivo that I can remember is a single line item on the home screen, and this was almost always for some VOD service.

There was also the thumb integration (you could thumbs-up some ads from either live tv or your recordings, which would pull up a new page with info about whatever was being advertised, occasionally a video), but this is about as unintrusive as it gets (a small icon on the top right whenever a compatible ad is played).

Has this changed in the newer revs? I'm honestly curious.

Re:Google to Acquire Nest by smackfu on Monday January 13, 2014 @04:31PM (#7053513)
Yep. Here's the ad sales page which goes through all the various options, including showing ads on the pause screen and including ads when you delete a show and in the menu that lists your episodes of a show. It's gross.

http://www.tivo.com/tivoadvertising/

(Your ad blocker may stop that page from working properly.)

Re:Google to Acquire Nest by Karunamon on Monday January 13, 2014 @04:35PM (#7053550)
Auugh.. thanks for the heads up. I can cross a new Tivo off the list of things I want, then. Part of the reason I bought that device was to skip ads...