In the world of geo-blocking and unblocking services things change all the time. For a long time Unlocator has been working perfectly with Hulu, but is that period over?
[stbpro id=”alert” caption=”May 26th, 2017″]We just received a message from Unlocator telling us that changes have been made, and that Unlocator should yet again work with Hulu. We tried it and everything works perfectly again![/stbpro]
If you did not know it, then Unlocator is a smart-DNS service which will let you get access to lots of streaming websites from outside the country. They give you access to such sites without using a VPN, meaning that you get higher speeds (normally). We have been using Unlocator frequently in our quest to stream Hulu in Europe, but just earlier today we got an error message saying that the Hulu content can not be streamed from outside the USA. What has happened?
Why doesn’t Unlocator work with Hulu?
The answer at the moment is that Hulu probably blocked the IP addresses used by the Unlocator proxy servers, and thus the requests arriving from those servers will be met with a “you are abroad message” on Hulu. That can be very annoying, especially considering that there are lots of season finales coming up on Hulu in these days, and in addition there are new episodes of the Handmaid’s Tale and other shows coming up all the time.
[stbpro id=”alert” caption=”May 26th, 2017″]We just received a message from Unlocator telling us that changes have been made, and that Unlocator should yet again work with Hulu. We tried it and everything works perfectly again![/stbpro]
Did someone say The End for Unlocator/Hulu?
Even though Unlocator doesn’t work with Hulu at the moment, it is probably just a temporary problem. There have been similar problems before with Unlocator (and all other VPN and SmartDNS services), but since such a large part of the Unlocator customers use the service to stream Hulu, they will for sure be eager to fix the problem as soon as possible.
For that reason we do not really worry, but we expect the problem to be fixed within shortly. We will of course update this article as soon as there are news related to this. Until then we will just use a VPN provider instead as we want to see Hulu content from abroad.
Have you got a question or maybe a similar problem with Hulu and Unlocator? Feel free to write a comment beneath to share your thoughts and your experience!
