Browser plugin lets people use U.S. music, video streaming sites
A new website and their web browser plugin appears to easily let anyone outside the United States use certain services, such as Hulu and Pandora, that were previously geo-locked to America.
It’s called Media Hint, their slogan is “Access you deserve,” and they claim to give users access to Hulu, Pandora, Rdio and Netflix.
The site suggests users install a web browser plugin, which is available for either Firefox or Chrome.
After that’s done, just click on one of the service’s icons on the Media Hint homepage to begin consuming either your favourite TV show, movie or song, it would seem.
Sure enough, a simple test brought up the Hulu website without facing any barriers. Although to actually start watching a show or listening to music is quite possibly breaking the law.
So how does Media Hint do it? Compared to some solutions, which involve messing with your Internet connection and fiddling with proxy server settings, this solution appears as quick and easy as turning on a water tap.
Digging into their privacy policy, it seems the service automatically connects users to a proxy server for free, but they’ll collect data “only about your behaviour on Our Site and information you submit to us yourself.”
Then hovering my mouse over the shortcuts to the various services, it looks like they're linking through a site...made in Latvia? If anyone understands what's going on here - let me know.
Besides, who knows how long Media Hint will last.
Would you use a site like Media Hint?
- Maurice Cacho, MSN Tech & Gadgets
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Posted by: Gary T | Nov 8, 2012 12:43:11 PM
so far it works in Canada. Won't work on Android with Chrome though.
Posted by: BGordon | Dec 23, 2012 10:54:12 AM
They need to make it work on Internet Explorer 9 and 10 for Windows 7 and Windows 8.