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Hulu.com - No Video Love For Linux Users(even paying ones); Modern Technology Fail!

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(UPDATE 2-13-2016) - Hulu now working on Google Chrome browser again! Hulu folks - for us Linux users, please test before breaking Hulu on Linux in the future. Thanks for looking out. Self-driving cars, the international space station, major stock markets, bullet trains, top supercomputers, billions of smart phones, animated movies, science, education, entire citties, and even the very Internet that we rely on for information and connectivity everyday. These are just a few of the amazing things that are brought to us thanks to the power of the GNU/Linux operating system!! So why is it that hulu.com wouldn't test to ensure us GNU/Linux desktop users weren't blocked by their latest DRM/video-rendering update? C'mon hulu.com, I'm a paying customer - and hulu.com used to work just fine for me on my Ubuntu GNU/Linux systems. Now when I try to view hulu.com, I'm presented with this problem and can't watch the videos at all: To hulu.com's credit, it...

UPDATED: Netflix Cancelled, Moved to Hulu Plus & Amazon Prime for GNU/Linux Client

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UPDATE 10/2014 - Netflix streaming now works perfectly in Ubuntu GNU/Linux on Google's Chrome browser!! Hooray!! Thank you Netflix for embracing HTML5 and cross-platform-compatibility!  Every so often, you have to rearrange things to keep them working right. It's kinda like the fork of OpenOffice to LibreOffice . Well, up until tonight, I was streaming Netflix to my Roku box . Not anymore. Tonight, I cancelled my Netflix account and opened Hulu Plus account instead. I know that Hulu Plus is more geared towards providing TV shows whereas Netflix is movies and TV shows. And I pretty much liked Netflix, except that they refuse to even acknowledge the desktop GNU/Linux operating system. Here's where  Hulu.com is so much better than Netflix. Unlike, Netflix, Hulu.com provides their " Hulu Desktop " application for GNU/Linux. To me, Hulu.com's actions of providing a GNU/Linux client for their streaming service shows their good corporate citizenship, respect ...