Hulu Commercial Auto-Muter

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A friend of mine build the same thing for Spotify called mutify, but Spotify released an update within a couple of weeks just making the advertisements pause whenever your audio is muted. The Spotify client will also pause the ad if the audio level in Spotify is below ~30%. Hulu will have a harder time though since it's web based (right?). Nice hack anyway. :)

Hmm. Interesting. I have to wonder if you could do similar for Pandora and NPR (although NPR can send me all the ads they want and I'll even pay them, as I love it so much)

I am pretty sure you can. If you want to try making one, I'd be glad to assist with tips and advice.

I think I'll take you up on that for Pandora. Will email later tonight.

So, it's a proxy that mutes the system whenever it detects 'adload' in the URL, and unmutes when it detects 'resume'. It's a clever trick, but unfortunately it's rather easy to ruin, and if you leave it up during other browsing you will probably get false positives.

Still, nicely done.

This potential problem is partly addressed in the latest version. Thanks for pointing it out.

Works well with this Chrome proxy switcher: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/caehdcpeofiiigpdhb...

sweet! Thanks, Dan,

lei è benvenuto!

Can you make it work on Xbox 360, please?

If someone sends me an Xbox 360 I'll try.

Sounds like a much more difficult hack, but if you want to borrow mine for a while I'm not really using it much.

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