TIVO "Icon" Ads - TOTAL DISASTER!

I knew they would cave - but I didn't expect it to be this bad. TIVO is now showing ads during fast forward over commercials. It covers much of the main part of the screen obscuring knowing when to stop fast forwarding. MY GOD TIVO!!! NOOOO!!! They are so careful about not doing these things - why now?

"I don't want to keep harping on this new feature, but I do want to return some nuance to this discussion by restating that I believe in all the screenshots I've seen, the ad is rough looking and obscuring too much of the screen. For the life of me, I can't figure out why TiVo would not put the ad down in a corner, perhaps taking up to 25% of the screen, wrapped around some TiVo OS chrome, so at least it looks like it should be there. The way the ads appear now, it almost looks like your TiVo has been hacked by an outsider. TiVo's UI and software engineers do some beautiful work, agonizing and testing each and every option, and customers are used to the friendly, eye-catching software, but this looks like something they were forbidden from working on."

Via "Icon" ads over commercials at TiVo | PVRblog

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