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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. original by TheSHAD0W · · Score: 1, Redundant

    http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/26/162622 5&mode=thread&tid=133

  2. Flashback Thanksgiving! by mlknowle · · Score: 1, Redundant

    It is like flashback thanksgiving around here! Here is the original, if you are interested... The orginial story was posted under "It's Funny...Laugh"

    Different posters, different slant - now THAT'S funny!

  3. Dupe!! by Maddog+Batty · · Score: 2, Redundant

    Hemos, try the following:
    http://slashdot.org/search.pl?query=tivo

    Its not that difficult to find dupes....

    The old story is here, it was only two days ago.

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  4. Auto-replay by dagg · · Score: 1, Redundant
    The last /. article is here: Previously on /.
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    What Tivo doesn't know...
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    Sex - Find It
  5. It's like Deja View... by Cap'n+Canuck · · Score: 1, Redundant

    ...um, all over again.

  6. Damnit by Chester+K · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Slashdot seems to really think I like stories about Tivo... this is the second one the editors have recommended this week!

    *thumbs down**thumbs down**thumbs down*

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