Safari AdBlock Frees Hulu

Thanks for publicizing and ruining it for everyone you fucking douche.

I use adblock, ad i now get a message that says the show is brought to me by hulu ad partners and gives info on how to become and advertiser?

Seem it no longer blocks hulu...although it does work at abc.com

Hulu seems to have found a way to get around the AdBlock. i now am getting a static screen of "Hulu depends on..." during the 15 seconrds. but no ad. this started showing up a few days ago after i enjoyed nearly a week of zero ads or interuptions. maybe i'll reinstall.

Most studios seem to think that inconveniencing me is a good way to get me to spend money on their products. They restrict the ways in which I can enjoy the content and tightly control when it can be purchased and how it can be watched. I won't spend a red cent on digital distribution until they take the locks off. I don't want to go back 5 years and find that all my content is in an obsolete format and be unable to convert it or watch it at all since the licensing entity has gone out of businesses and no longer releases the player or "activates" the licenses.

Watching Hulu without ads is little different than using a DVR. The ads need to be less intrusive to the viewing experience, need to be more targeted, interesting, relevant, and varied.

They shouldn't be showing the same ad on hulu 8 times in 43 minutes, that is simply annoying.

Now, if you could just figure out a hack that would let me watch Hulu (or ABC.com, or Netflix streaming, etc.) from outside the U.S.

As for keeping people employed - I have only watched one show online - Lost and that was just once at work and i didn't make it all the way through - it was ad-blocked though.

I (and probably many other people) will buy an episode of a show they missed (or the DVR didn't record) from iTunes over steaming it online.

I will pay two bucks to not watch ads. I will not use bit-torrent, or watch anything through HuLu (until NBC/Uni programs come back to iTunes). If NBC does not want to give me the option to buy their programs then they shouldn't complain when people go around their preferred way of watching.

I am thinking of using EyeTV though when I get my new system in a month or so.

James

This also works for the HD streaming at ABC. I noticed it yesterday when catching up on Season 3.

No one has to watch ads, no matter what the medium is. I can fast-forward through ads with my DVR, ignore ads in the paper and magazines, and block ads through my browser. I don't see a problem here (and I work in film/video production). I find it odd that people are insisting that we musn't block ads, or even leave the room when they play. There is no difference between blocking an ad online and changing the channel during commercial breaks. Some people do it, but most won't and they will see the ads. It's not like everyone who sees an ad buys the product anyway.

I too was wondering why the commercials weren't coming up the last few times I was watching BSG. Go Adblock!

This is old news anyway. They talked about this on Twit/Macbreak Weekly about a month ago!
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