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RadioDoc
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join:2000-05-11		reply to S_engineer
Re: Localized marketing or ethnic market profiling...

Yet another reason to cut the cable...
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Toolmaster of La Grange.
to forum · permalink · · 2009-03-05 16:08:45 · Reply to this


Eat Me

join:2002-09-25
Sussex, NJ		 Or get a Tivo/other DVR.
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RadioDoc
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join:2000-05-11		 Naw, cutting the cable is much better, cheaper, and doesn't enrich sleazy cable operators coffers.
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Toolmaster of La Grange.
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patcat88

join:2002-04-05
Jamaica, NY

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said by Eat Me See Profile :

Or get a Tivo/other DVR.
Tivo squawks your viewing habits back to headquarters.
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en102
Canadian, eh?

join:2001-01-26
Valencia, CA		 Satellite (I never plugged it into a phone line) or OTA digital is the way to get rid of that problem.

I suspect FiOS and AT&T also resell viewer info stats.
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Anonymous_
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reply to RadioDoc
said by RadioDoc See Profile :

Yet another reason to cut the cable...
yea internet downloading FTW

NO AD"S (as they are blocked via ad filter) TV rips are ad free also
to forum · permalink · · 2009-03-06 01:42:28 · Reply to this

NormanS
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join:2001-02-14
San Jose, CA
·Pacific Bell - SBC

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Re: Localized marketing or ethnic market profiling...

said by en102 See Profile :

I suspect FiOS Verizon and AT&T also resell viewer info stats.
Fixed it for you (maybe should've changed it to "FiOS" and "Uverse"; but I think you get the idea!)
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