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Originally Posted by ocav

Well make a complaint and cancel.

You’re missing the point. As is mentioned by others, it’s the principle that is annoying.

Without wanting to sound like a stuck record, Virgin are generating revenue from their customers and then exploiting us by further generating money from those advertising with them. It’s a double whammy based purely on greed (unless anyone else can offer a reason for it) that grates.

Originally Posted by OLD BOY

For heaven's sake, what are we going to moan about next? Talk about a storm in a teacup!

I’ll ‘moan’ about your irrelevant input into a valid thread if you wish?

Originally Posted by andy_m

In the same way a pvr such as TiVo allows you to skip adverts on recorded shows, so I certainly don't feel like I have adverts forced on me.

These adverts are ‘forced’ on you though aren’t they? Not in a Clockwork Orange ‘pin you down and open your eyes wide’ style, it’s subtly done but you have no choice in the matter.

Originally Posted by andy_m

Virgin don't make it clear that they will show these adverts, although I had a TiVo before they started, so that may have changed. I wonder if a better question is, if they did were up front about it, would it actually put anybody off? And how, exactly, should they describe it?

If they were up front about it then this thread wouldn’t exist and we’d all be carrying along merrily I would imagine – it’s not a deal breaker.

As for describing it, it’s pretty easy to say something along the lines of ‘Whilst viewing TiVo you may be subject to advertisements from some of our chosen partners and/or supporters’ (or something along those lines).

Again, it’s probably already been done and nestling somewhere in the T&C’s anyway.