Comments on: Watch Full Star Trek Episodes Online on YouTube

By: alx

alx — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 13:51:03 +0000

Patrick, many many thanks for the Prisoner heads up!

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10 Unique YouTube Channels You Should Watch | MakeUseOf.com — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 18:59:08 +0000

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By: Vincent Chow

Vincent Chow — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 15:51:03 +0000

For those who aren’t comfortable to install extra programs just to watch region filtered YouTube videos, I have blogged about the solutions here: http://www.sheeptech.com/bypass-this-video-is-not-available-in-your-country

By: Tari Akpodiete

Tari Akpodiete — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 10:41:56 +0000

are you using an older version? i couldn’t turn it off. it kept doing what i have described even when it was not actually active.

By: Aibek

Aibek — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 10:37:49 +0000

Well, guyz I only use HSS when I need to watch something. For instance to access sites like Hulu or Sling

http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/how-to-watch-movies-and-shows-on-hulu-sling-from-abroad/

When I am done watching it I just turned it off. As simple as that. I dont like what they are doing but at the same time it takes a single right click on the windows toolbar to turn it off.

By: Tari Akpodiete

Tari Akpodiete — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 10:35:41 +0000

George, you’re from Witopia, right? nothing wrong with that except not disclosing it.

By: Tari Akpodiete

Tari Akpodiete — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 10:32:29 +0000

well, i am quite pissed off at HotSpot Shield. what a piece of shit. never used to be like that. it actually hijacked my browser. every time i went somewhere, it did a frames like thing and showed me ads. wouldn’t mind if it only did it while i was on youtube, but no, EVERYHWERE. and then it hijacked my search results. i went to Google to see if there were complaints about it spring ads and what it did was show me something OTHER than my google searches. it showed me something that looked like a search page from somewhere, but was really a page of paid links masquerading as search results. i could see my real results under it, but couldn’t get to them. SLEAZY SCUMBAG BEHAVIOUR. and to think i just recommended them on twitter. i’m in Canada, by the way. i would pay a reasonable one time fee for a downloadable program like this that did NOT do this sort of crap.

By: GeorgeR

GeorgeR — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 02:50:26 +0000

hotspot shield is ad-supported so they target advertising to you. Nothing wrong with that, but many people, like me, don’t like the ads or the possible privacy issues. A low cost paid alternative is Personal VPN from Witopia, http://www.witopia.net It works with hulu, cbs, boxee pretty well from my experience.

By: ramaccount

ramaccount — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 01:32:14 +0000

Note: video doesn’t play on iPhone/ipod touch

By: Merras

Merras — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 21:18:21 +0000

This hotspotshield is a piece of shit, DO NOT INSTALL!!!!

On my computer, this app is opening a lot of advertisements, or change the banners on a homepage to other banners.

By: Patrick Spreng

Patrick Spreng — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 20:50:17 +0000

They aren’t on YouTube, but full-length videos of all 17 episodes of the 1960’s era masterpiece, “The Prisoner” starring Patrick McGoohan can be found at AMC-TV’s site: http://www.amctv.com/videos/the-prisoner-1960s-video/

By: makka

makka — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 20:49:08 +0000

W00t, I love Star Trek! And believe me, torrents of the episodes are slow and take up way too much space! Although since the episodes are in one chunk, youtube does put ads in by itself (I know this to be fact). So maybe HSS is only putting 9/10 of the ads in, and youtube is cashing in a little. I wouldn’t know, being in the US.

By: Mark O'Neill

Mark O'Neill — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 20:10:30 +0000

Wow, I am really shocked because I don’t see any of that at all. I am using the latest version of HSS and I have just started it to see if it is doing it to me and it isn’t.

So I am really pissed off that I am promoting it on MakeUseOf and now I am hearing this that they are engaging in unethical behaviour.

But it looks like that they are only doing it to users in certain countries and I would really like to know why they are targeting UK users, since I am British myself. I am tempted to fire off a nasty email.

By: nick

nick — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 19:55:43 +0000

Sorry for the double post, firefox crashed and when I checked it looked like the post was’nt successful…Doh! Anyway, the ads for me were way to annoying, there was a banner at the top stealing screen real estate and at the start of a session a whole page of ads that you had to click on one and then close it. There’s no way I could live with that, perhaps if it was DS9 it would be worth installing it each time you wanted to watch an episode then remove it afterwards….lol

Cheers.

By: nick

nick — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 19:47:50 +0000

Hi Mark,

I tried Startrek on YouTube before removing Hotspot Shield and it was ok apart from the audio being a little quiet.

However, Im not sure if your version of HSS is old or something, but after a quick google I found HSS to be at blaim

One of the constant nuisances that plague Hotspot Shield users is persistent (and sometimes inappropriate) onslaught of ads built into the HSS monetization scheme. It’s dubious enough that Anchorfree steals ad revenue from google adwords users by masking them with amazon ads, but HSS creates a massive box on the top of every page users surf to as well–completely vanquishing an incredible chunk of screen real-estate.

Apparently the firefox add-on Ad Block Plus helps with this but funnily enough I have that installed and still got hammered by the ads!

Anyway Thanks for the article!

By: Mark O'Neill

Mark O'Neill — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 19:40:04 +0000

So these ads are being placed on the actual webpage and you have to click past them? Wow. Well that doesn’t happen for me so that must be a country-specific thing.

Can’t you just ignore them? After all, you’re getting to watch programmes such as Star Trek.

By: nick

nick — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 19:31:31 +0000

I did try out star trek on youtube before removing hotspot shield and found that it streamed satisfactorily. There were a few tiny niggles like the audio seemed to be very quiet but that it was watchable. However The advertising I remarked on was definitely not Hulu as it said something along the lines of ‘To begin this anonymous session click any of our sponsors’. I just done a quick search and found this link http://patricksoon.blogspot.com/2008/09/adblock-firefox-extension-blocks-all.html talks about how AdBlock Plus stops Hotspot ads – so I’m guessing Hotspot was the culprit, affecting me (in the UK) anyway. Thanks again for the article though.

By: Mark O'Neill

Mark O'Neill — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 18:56:46 +0000

I honestly have no idea what you’re talking about regarding the advertising. I have Hotspot Shield on my computer and I have been watching Star Trek on YouTube from my home here in Germany and it works perfectly. I have seen no advertising whatsoever. The streaming is also very fast for me so your streaming problem is a Hulu problem in my opinion.

Hotspot Shield is just a small app which sits in your taskbar and suppresses your IP address so the advertising issue is most probably ALSO coming from Hulu, NOT Hotspot Shield.

Please don’t take this the wrong way but I would also recommend you run an adware scan on your computer to be on the safe side.

By: nick

nick — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 18:49:12 +0000

Thanks for the article, but I had a few issues. I live in the UK and have a 20mbit cable connection. After installing hotspot shield I thought i’d skip youtube and try Hulu. I tried several video’s (trying a few I thought wouldn’t be so popular) but found the streaming to be very slow and resulting in every video I tried, to be unwatchable. Is this just Hulu, Maybe? But more annoying than that was that I found everytime I start my browser, hotspot shield forces me to click on advertising links before it lets me continue. What’s that all about? Thanks but I’m off to uninstall Hotspot shield.