Shiny Hacks: Stream The Daily Show, The Colbert Report and South Park From Anywhere In The World

Monday, January 17, 2011

Stream The Daily Show, The Colbert Report and South Park From Anywhere In The World

Current and up to date episodes of The Daily Show, The Colbert Report and South Park are available for flash video streaming for those living in the US. However, these shows are restricted for people outside of the US. With this method I'm about to go through, current episodes can be watched from anywhere in the world.

The method has worked since January 2010. It does not require the use of a proxy service and it works by changing the user agent in one's Firefox browser.

Step 1) Open Firefox and install the Add-on from this address: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/967/.

Step 2) Restart Firefox, and then click Tools -> Modify Headers.

Step 3) Enter 'X-Forwarded-For' in the first box and in the second box enter '12.13.14.15' as in the diagram below. Click 'Add' to add it to the the list of actions.

Step 4) Click on the 'Options' tab, and check the box 'Always On'.

Step 5) Watch anything from http://www.colbertnation.com/, http://www.thedailyshow.com/ and http://www.southparkstudios.com/. Enjoy!

Source: ReaverXai - http://www.reddit.com/r/entertainment/comments/9sfen/colbert_skewers_beck_for_constant_tears/c0e8jfp

Tips
I have found that using this change may effect other websites, for example, Steampowered.com will display US prices instead of whatever local prices you have. You can use this to your advantage if you have a valid US address.

If you do not have administrator priviliges and you do not have Firefox installed, you can use FirefoxPortable to install Firefox on any machine. You can also install the Flash plugin using my guide here.

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Frederick Mills · 746 weeks ago

I followed the instructions and it does n't work. I had to download Firefox since i was not using it on here yet, and it made me install the flash plugin and it downloaded automatically in dutch. So something else is still giving me away? Maybe their security is a little better then this little trick tries to credit them?

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Frederick Mills · 746 weeks ago

nevermind, i'm an idiot,... (stupid keyboard)

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Chavdar · 746 weeks ago

Thank you!

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Hegira · 746 weeks ago

Many, many thanks!

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Markos · 746 weeks ago

Any way to implement this in Google Chrome?

1 reply · active 746 weeks ago

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Andytizer 27p · 746 weeks ago

Unfortunately I don't think there is a way until Chrome supports user agent switching. I had a look at a Chrome extension under development: http://spoofer-extension.appspot.com/about

"Google Chrome's extension API has no support for modifying network requests, so there's no way to do this at an extension level."

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Luna-A · 746 weeks ago

It works! Thank you sooo much!

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Tanuki · 746 weeks ago

Thank you!!!

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carl · 738 weeks ago

thank you

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Eddie · 728 weeks ago

How can I do this is if I'm in the US and want to do the same for restricted access to the UK?

2 replies · active 725 weeks ago

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tom · 725 weeks ago

try this site gives you a UK IP address
http://www.expatshield.com/

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Eddie · 725 weeks ago

thanks

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Alice · 719 weeks ago

This is freaking awesome. Thanks!!

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and · 704 weeks ago

Thank you!

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GFonne · 692 weeks ago

This has suddenly stopped working 28 Feb 2012... anybody else with this problem???

2 replies · active 685 weeks ago

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guv · 692 weeks ago

not working for me either

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Monti · 685 weeks ago

Just got my first Colbert report for 4 months since returning to Aus, I was watching it in Europe for years and was shocked on my return here.
Works fine with the method above except there was no 'always on' after opening the 'options' tab
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ertyui · 662 weeks ago

Yep, it use to work, and now it's dead... :(

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Jeromicon · 646 weeks ago

Tried this but URL given above was dead. Reading the latest comments, I assumed it no longer worked, but I persevered and it *does* still work. It just seems the above URL is non-responsive sometimes so leave it a while and try again later.
Alternatively you can open Firefox, click Tools > Add Ons, search for "modify headers", select it from the results and click "install"; then proceed to step 2. {To be honest though they're just 2 different ways of going to the same place and getting the same thing. So figures if one's down, both shoud be down}
FYI: Step 4 is obselete. There is no "always on" setting. All you need to do is make sure the newly added setting has a green light alongside it(double click the new line if not), AND that you've clicked "start"(big smiley face on top left).
Good to go then.

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Andytizer 27p · 646 weeks ago

Thanks I'll amend it.

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