Unusual Tivo question

In today's environment it's even easier. TiVo can collect your viewing habits easily. Your TiVo communicates with the servers about every four hours. No one knows exactly what gets sent or received. I have heard several times where ratings of "delayed" watching were reported. I assume that us people watching a recording. I gave up my privacy years ago.

 

I have assumed since TiVo now requires a constant connection to their servers that they are keeping data on everything I watch, record, and delete. It wouldn't surprise me to find out they sell that info to whomever is willing to pay.

 

Read the TiVo Privacy Policy. They can collect and share ("We may also use information we collect in our analytics business, where we use data that has been either de-identified or aggregated (or both) to generate insights into consumer behaviors (for example, to show what the most watched commercial was during a particular show)." viewing info.

"If you do not want us to use your viewing logs in our analytics business or share that de-identified information with third parties, you can opt out by logging into your account on tivo.com or calling us at 1-877-367-8486."

 

3rd Parties: "Jesus. This guy really loves Rick and Morty reruns"

 

It's aggregated, so 3rd parties don't get "your" viewing habits. They just get to see that there's a hot spot of people who happen to like Rick and Morty .

 

Went #2 and wiped, came back there was a Charmin ad at the bottom of TiVo Home.

Clicked on the ad, TV suddenly said "Alexa, flush the toilet"

Coincidence? You tell me.