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On Wed, 15 Jan 2014 21:22:14 +0000, Andy Burns
wrote:

Sky HD+ boxes are apparently set to download targeted adverts to hard
disk, and play them instead of the normal ad breaks while watching live TV

http://www.skymedia.co.uk/sky-adsmar...y-adsmart.aspx

Luckily I will never have any reason to care.

I think the best way of avoiding these world domination attempts is
never to sign up to anything in which the hardware and the software
are provided by the same people.

My Freeview service comes to me from people who just provide a TV
service but not equipment, and my TV equipment was made by people who
just make equipment but not programmes. I am under no illusions about
whether the facility to edit out the adverts on my disk recorder would
be present if the recorder if had been manufactured by a TV service
provider. Likewise, I use an unlocked unbranded mobile phone bought
from Amazon, and a PAYG SIM card from a supermarket, and the parts for
my computers were purchased separately from the operating systems and
other software and put together myself. The aim is to keep control of
as much as possible of my own life by never letting one company or
organisation have too much simultaneous control of the same things.

I'm not paranoid, because the advertisers really are out to get us.

Rod.

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On 16/01/2014 12:17, Roderick Stewart wrote:
On Wed, 15 Jan 2014 21:22:14 +0000, Andy Burns
wrote:

Sky HD+ boxes are apparently set to download targeted adverts to hard
disk, and play them instead of the normal ad breaks while watching live TV

http://www.skymedia.co.uk/sky-adsmar...y-adsmart.aspx

Luckily I will never have any reason to care.

I think the best way of avoiding these world domination attempts is
never to sign up to anything in which the hardware and the software
are provided by the same people.


You won't be buying a new TV then. The subject was just covered by
Radio 4 'You and Tours'. New TVs connected to the Internet are starting
to use this to report viewers habits.


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Michael Chare

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On Thu, 16 Jan 2014 12:55:33 UTC, Michael Chare
[email protected] wrote:

On 16/01/2014 12:17, Roderick Stewart wrote:
On Wed, 15 Jan 2014 21:22:14 +0000, Andy Burns
wrote:

Sky HD+ boxes are apparently set to download targeted adverts to hard
disk, and play them instead of the normal ad breaks while watching live TV

http://www.skymedia.co.uk/sky-adsmar...y-adsmart.aspx

Luckily I will never have any reason to care.

I think the best way of avoiding these world domination attempts is
never to sign up to anything in which the hardware and the software
are provided by the same people.


You won't be buying a new TV then. The subject was just covered by
Radio 4 'You and Tours'. New TVs connected to the Internet are starting
to use this to report viewers habits.


Well that should be easy enough to block in a firewall :-)

--
Regards
Dave Saville

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"R. Mark Clayton" wrote in message
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"Andy Burns" wrote in message
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Sky HD+ boxes are apparently set to download targeted adverts to hard
disk, and play them instead of the normal ad breaks while watching live
TV

Clever.

Normal advertisers will not be impressed however!

The "normal" advertisers are being asked to pay for this addition service
and some number (IIRC about 60), have signed up"