Access Mature Hulu Content on Boxee
If your excitement about being able to watch Hulu on Boxee was dampened by your inability to access mature content, this simple hack will let you watch movies and television shows with a mature rating.
The issues arises from the way Hulu manages mature content. When you visit Hulu and attempt to watch a movie or television show that has been flagged as mature, you're required to login to view it. When you visit Hulu through Boxee, however, you're unable to login so the content is inaccessible.
Clever users over at the Boxee forums have figured out a workaround. You'll need to steal the cookies database from Firefox and swap it out with the cookies file in Hulu, which will pull your Hulu login right along with it. Here are the directories you'll need to copy from and paste to:
HOW TO: Access mature Hulu content on Boxee Beta [Boxee Forums via Mashable]
If your excitement about being able to watch Hulu on Boxee was dampened by your inability to access mature content, this simple hack will let you watch movies and television shows with a mature rating.
The issues arises from the way Hulu manages mature content. When you visit Hulu and attempt to watch a movie or television show that has been flagged as mature, you're required to login to view it. When you visit Hulu through Boxee, however, you're unable to login so the content is inaccessible.
Clever users over at the Boxee forums have figured out a workaround. You'll need to steal the cookies database from Firefox and swap it out with the cookies file in Hulu, which will pull your Hulu login right along with it. Here are the directories you'll need to copy from and paste to:
Locate your Firefox cookies.sqlite file
For more information about the hack and to read the discussion surrounding it, visit the Boxee forum at the link below. If you have your own clever Boxee hack, let's hear about it in the comments.- OSX: ~/Library/Application Support/Firefox/Profiles/[username]/cookies.sqlite
- Linux: ~/.mozilla/firefox/[username].default/cookies.sqlite
- XP: C:\Documents and Settings\[username]\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\[username]\cookies.sqlite
- Vista/Windows 7: C:\Users\[username]\appdata\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\cookies. sqlite
- OSX: ~/Library/Application Support/BOXEE/UserData/Profiles/[username]/browser/cookies.sqlite
- Linux: ~/.boxee/Userdata/profiles/[username]/browser/cookies.sqlite
- XP: C:\Documents and Settings\[username]\Application Data\Boxee\userdata\Profiles\[username]\browser\cookies.sqlite
- Vista/Windows 7: C:\Users\[username]\appdata\Roaming\BOXEE\userdata\profiles\[username]\browser\cookies.sqlite
HOW TO: Access mature Hulu content on Boxee Beta [Boxee Forums via Mashable]
