Hulu no longer working via Unblock-us

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steve98

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#143698 24-Apr-2014 07:18

Hi all

Am getting the following message on both Mac and AppleTV this morning when trying to view anything on HuluPlus. There's a post about it on the unblock-us website, so not just me. Interested to know if any other geo-unlock services are affected or if just unblock-us? Cheers

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#1030281 24-Apr-2014 08:36

Damn!

I'm getting the same message through my Astrill VPN setup!

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#1030284 24-Apr-2014 08:39

+1 my Astrill also blocked

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#1030290 24-Apr-2014 08:44

Clearly all of those who believed online services had no incentive to do anything about users bypassing geo-blocking may possibly be proven wrong. :-(

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#1030291 24-Apr-2014 08:46

Just been talking to Astrill support and they say this:

"You can try with Dallas 1 server at the moment. Which won't give you that message. Till then, We already have forwarded this issue to our level 2 support (software engineers) they are looking into this already."

Might be worth a try.

[UPDATE] - All working with the Dallas 1 Astrill Server :-)

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#1030292 24-Apr-2014 08:46

Unblock have a support article here about it

http://support.unblock-us.com/customer/portal/articles/1524697-hulu-anonymous-proxy-error-issue

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#1030313 24-Apr-2014 09:14

This is a little worrisome. I wonder if we will see similar from NetFlix shortly. I reckon Hulu would only be tightening down on this after upstream pressure from the companies whose media they host. So if Hulu are clamping down, its probably only a matter of time before other streaming services are forced to do so.

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#1030325 24-Apr-2014 09:24

Woah... unblock-us fixed it already! working again. Could get cat & mouse from here on though.

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#1030346 24-Apr-2014 09:33

I had this the other day from Netflix:

http://www.geekzone.co.nz/forums.asp?forumId=151&topicId=143620

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#1030347 24-Apr-2014 09:36

Astrill will work when you change the US server location

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#1030394 24-Apr-2014 09:51

sbiddle: Clearly all of those who believed online services had no incentive to do anything about users bypassing geo-blocking may possibly be proven wrong. :-(

They can try and try but they can't win.

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#1030432 24-Apr-2014 10:22

nakedmolerat:
sbiddle: Clearly all of those who believed online services had no incentive to do anything about users bypassing geo-blocking may possibly be proven wrong. :-(

They can try and try but they can't win.

They can't win, but they can make it not worth the hassle.

Then we'll have to choose between torrents,Telecom's new offering or Sky. Or slamming our fingers in a door repeatedly, which is about as much fun.

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#1030559 24-Apr-2014 13:13

Given a choice between 1) Quickflix or 2) slamming my fingers in a door with Netlifx or Hulu, I'll go with option 2.

Hulu wasn't streaming this morning on Overplay.net unblocking service, but Overplay are aware of the problem and it appears to only affect Apple TV.

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#1030865 24-Apr-2014 22:14

also check the twitter thread from steve:

"Looks like Hulu have implemented something to stop people using VPN and DNS geo-blocking. Seems people outside the US seeing an error msg."

https://twitter.com/stevebiddle/status/459077041141207040

NB its working fine here using UnoTelly + BigPipe

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#1030868 24-Apr-2014 22:20

Still can't stream Hulu using overplay.net

Message pops up telling me to disable anonymous proxy.

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#1030908 25-Apr-2014 06:21

Regs: also check the twitter thread from steve:

"Looks like Hulu have implemented something to stop people using VPN and DNS geo-blocking. Seems people outside the US seeing an error msg."

https://twitter.com/stevebiddle/status/459077041141207040

NB its working fine here using UnoTelly + BigPipe

That tweet was probably just based on this thread.

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