You did know that your computer isn’t the only place you can have pop-up ad spam shoved in your face, right? TiVo knows this. Show Aunty a device which is connected, and Aunty will show you a device capable of being exploited with pop-up ads. TiVo knows this, too.

And with that knowledge, TiVo has started testing pop-up ads on… well… you, its users.

You see, it seems that the advertisers are a bit concerned about the TiVo user’s ability to skip advertisements. TiVo needs to keep those advertisers happy. Offering the pop-ups is a way to allow the advertisers to still be in the advertising game even when users have very clearly said, with the skipping of ads action which speaks oh-so-much louder than words “we aren’t interested in advertisements.”

The way that it works is that while the user is in the very act of skipping ads, the pop-up pops up and remains on the screen…

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