Getting annoyed. Is it DirecTV's fault?

[ncted]

First off, I have been getting spammed by Viacom properties for the past year or so. I'll unsubscribe from their mailing lists, which will stop it for a while, but then the messages will start up again after a few weeks. This started shortly after I subscribed to DirecTV. It could be coincidence, but I was wondering if any other DirecTV subs had the same issue.

Also, it appears there are now commercials that 30-second-skip will not fast forward through. I have to use the traditional FF to bypass these commercials. Is anyone else seeing that?

I hate to rant because my experience with DirecTV has been pretty good over all, excluding the price anyway, but these minor annoyances are starting to get to me. It doesn't really matter since I am planning to go OTA, but I though these were worth mentioning.

-Ted

[KidInTheHall]

That sounds odd from the way you describe it, you shouldn't be getting spam as I do believe we don't share your e-mail information with other companies unless there was an option about letting us share it with partners that maybe you forgot to uncheck.

As far as the commercial thing I haven't heard anything about that but who knows, when I work tomorrow I may see a notice for it.

[Rey]

I really haven't had this issues. what commercials are you specifically referring to?

[charper1]

Diito to the above from Rey; been around since mid/late 90's and don't have anything like you describe; spam or "ad avoidance" via FFW

[ncted]

Last night I was watching Leverage and there were 2 ads. One was for Hardees and the other was for Ford. My wife claims that she ran into the same thing during last week's Greys Anatomy, but she didn't say which commercials.

I'll see if I can check my privacy settings at directv.com.

Thanks,
Ted

[ncted]

I changed my privary setting to opt-out. I don't know if that has anything to do with the viacom emails. It might be a coicidence. Now that I consider it, it could be TimeWarnerCable as well. I am a Road Runner customer.

-Ted

[charper1]

yep!!

[ncted]

I changed my privary setting to opt-out. I don't know if that has anything to do with the viacom emails. It might be a coicidence. Now that I consider it, it could be TimeWarnerCable as well. I am a Road Runner customer.

-Ted

No, nothing in my TWC account setting to suggest I should be getting any emails from 3rd parties. Weird.

[charper1]

I have Comcast for internet; trust me, they will have something hidden very well in the EULA or similar. Check in the user contact information links; that's where Comcast's is. You can also try the lost art of calling them and telling them you wish to opt out of any and all promos, adverts, internal or 3rd party offers; everything. And document it.

You can also go to their FAQ or knowledge base and search OPT OUT; this stuff must be able to be found by law.

[mdram]

no spam, and leverage skipped fine for me