[tor-talk] reject Hulu in exit policy

Dan Thill dgt at acm.org
Mon Mar 9 15:52:45 UTC 2015


On Mon, Mar 9, 2015, at 12:50 AM, luis wrote:
> On 03/09/2015 01:34 AM, scar wrote:
> > my computer is in the USA but the problem is i am running an exit node
> > so there's no way to get my IP whitelisted with Hulu.  the next solution
> > is to blacklist Hulu in my exit policy.  before i try to contact Hulu to
> > ask them which IP addresses/networks to reject, i wanted to check here
> > to see if anyone already had some reject policies for Hulu?
> 
> More than likely, Hulu just indiscriminately blocks Tor exit relays. I
> doubt blocking Hulu from your exit policy would help with anything. Nor
> will contacting them I'd bet; companies are always very finicky about
> adding exceptions for people.

They block middle relays as well (at least as of last year they did).  I
had to cycle my cablemodem until I got a different IP as they kept
blocking me long after I stopped being a middle relay.  They aren't fast
to update whatever blocklist they're using.

Best Buy was the same, FWIW.



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