Viktor Hansson

by Viktor Hansson on 23 June 2014, 06:50

EDIT: Apparantly this is no longer working, since Google is being a bitch about unsigned extensions. Nowadays if this modification is done, the hashes in the extenstion directory no longer matches that of the files, which makes chrome think the extenstion is "broken". Fortunately I found a workaround. Scroll to the bottom of this post to see it.

So for my first real post I decided to write a little hack to enable media hint without a paid account. In my experience media hint is the only good workaround to access Netlfix US in a reliable way. I've tried Hola unblocker and Zenmate but these only worked 10% of the times I tried them.

So when searching for replacement I found one blog post that mentioned that you could "hack" the extension to continue using it for free, but they didn't describe how. After a little thinking I figured it can't be that hard.

All you have to do are these 6 steps:

Go to chrome://extensions/ and enable programmer mode with the checkbox in the upper right corner.
Find the media hint extension and copy the ID string.

Go to

C:\Users\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\Extensions\0.2.3_0

(replace with your username and with the extension id string).

Open app.js prefereable in a code editor, notepad will do if you don't have one.

Insert the following:

callback(null,JSON.parse("{\"signed_in\":true,\"profile\":{\"name\":\"Loluser\",\"picture\":\"google.com\"}, \"current_plan\":\"trial\",\"days_left\":7,\"expired \":false}"));
return;

after

var fetchUserStatus = function (callback) {

Save and restart chrome

Now you should be able to toggle Media hint without it asking you to login or signup.

EDIT: New way.

This new way is a little more work, but still quite simple to do.

First off follow the first 5 steps above.
Once that is done, copy all the files in the ...\0.2.3_0 folder, except the _metadata folder, and put them in a folder somewhere else on your computer, like
```
C:\Users\\Desktop\BetterMediaHint
```
Then go into the chrome extensions page and delete Media Hint.
Next click the "Load unpacked extension" button and select the folder you put the files in.
Finally restart chrome.

Chrome will now nag about disabling developer extensions or some shit like that, but you can just ignore that. Or disable/enable the new Media hint extension when you want to watch Netflix.