There have been several ways to watch and access Hulu videos outside US in the past, however, Hulu has been blocking those tools and most of them no longer work. However, now a Reddit user has come up with a way to watch Hulu videos outside US without having to use a proxy server or VPN.
However, accessing Hulu Videos outside US is not pretty straightforward and will require you to perform several tasks. You will also have to use the Firefox browser and install a Firefox add-on.
Access Hulu Videos Outside US for Free
Step 1: Download Firefox (if you don’t have it already) and install the Modify Headers add-on (download here)
Step 2: In Firefox, go to Tools -> Modify Headers and from the drop down box select add and enter “X-Forwarded-For” in the first input box and enter the IP address of any US website and click enter.
Step 3: You will need to block TCP and UDP port 1935 since Hulu Flash client tries to connect to that port. Once you have blocked that port it will fall back to Http. To block TCP and UDP ports on Windows, visit this page.
To UDP and TCP port on a Mac, type this in a terminal window:
sudo ipfw add 0 deny tcp from any to any 1935 sudo ipfw add 0 deny udp from any to any 1935
Linux users will have to do this through the iptables by running the following commands:
iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 1935 -j DROP iptables -A INPUT -p udp --dport 1935 -j DROP
That’s it, this trick should allow you to watch Hulu videos outside the US at-least for a while till Hulu comes up with a fix for it. Using this trick might block Flash on other websites, so use it only when you want to watch Hulu videos.
(Reddit via Life Hacker)
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