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When Personalization Runs Amuck

Posted by Hemos on from the swf-or-not dept.

pamar writes "According to this article from the Wall Street Journal, your TiVo could definitely get the wrong impression about your interests, or even your sexual preferences. And what you need to do to get "a clean slate"? Most of the users who have been "targeted" by TiVo usually try to "correct" the profiling by showing an abnormal interest in something wildly different." Yep, it's a dupe.

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  1. Read The Manual! by stevelup · · Score: 5, Informative

    All you have to do is go into the system setup menu and select "Reset Thumb Data".

    It will forget everything it ever might have thought about you...

    Mind you, expecting journalists to read the instruction manual before making wild statements is of course too much to ask...