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		Jasber on May 10, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Brotherhood of the Ad Blockers I think the original TiVo's had this "auto-skip" feature but had to be removed due to this issue.

ryan-c on May 10, 2018 [–]

TiVo had a 30 second skip feature to make manually skipping ads easy that they "disabled" (there was a "cheat code" to turn it back on) to avoid legal issues. They also had a button to skip 8 seconds back, but that was far easier to justify.

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