Tivo without a phone

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These other companies aren't selling your information to third parties. How does the phone company profit by knowing who you call?? Tivo makes money of the people who have signed up - and then these people pay an extra fee for the privilege. You can get the same setup from your cable provider much cheaper - without the tracking algorithms.

But if you like throwing all your information around to whoever wants its, good luck with that.