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Media Hint Brings Hulu, Netflix, and Pandora to non-U.S. Residents
Chrome: If you’re outside the United States you know all too well how irritating it can be when you’re denied access to streaming services because of your location. Stop missing out and start streaming with Chrome extension Media Hint.
So what’s the secret sauce? The extensions routes your traffic–just the traffic for the streaming service–through U.S.-based proxies so you can enjoy content unavailable in your home country. The extension requires no configuration or registration, simply install it and visit Hulu, Netflix, or Pandora to start streaming.
Media Hint is a free extension, Chrome only.
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- Published 11/9/12
Available on Firefox as well. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/media-hint/?src=search
Screenshot shows it is available on Firefox as well!
Not for long, I bet.
@tony: Haha, you’re ruining the party:)
But yes, I believe this will not last long considering the gray area of legality.
Thank you, Hint! =)
How about letting us from USA watch streaming video of shows from other parts of the world? How can we do this?
Doesn’t appear to work in Australia running FF 16.0.2. All three sites (Hulu, Netflix, and Pandora) report that I’m in an unsupported country.
EDIT: as per developer’s suggestion, I disabled FoxyProxy and it worked ;)
Already gone from store in UK.:(
It is still available in the UK from http://www.mediahint.com