If you did a single free trial each time with a different service it would work (once for each service). But not multiple free trials on one service.
Wrong.
It has nothing to do with which computer you use. It’s your IP address, which is the unique identifier to your modem and location. You could do it from 10 different computers in your house and it won’t work.
If next year you try to run a free trial again from your house, even with a different email and credit card (I tested it on Hulu and YT after your first post), it won’t work. You can try to use a VPN (and I have), but streaming services are damn good at detecting them and get better all the time. Google is ridiculously quick at updating IP databases, good luck lol.
You’re either bullshitting us or you don’t understand how it works.
Which is WHY I was able to do it. Home, office, etc. I used YouTube 3 different times, PS Vue 2 times, ATT Now, Sling and Fubo the rest. (NW I was in Evanston, ISU & Wiscy I watched at local I-Club hangout).
And yes, it WILL work next year. YT, Sling and Fubo all allow one free trial per year. The problem being, of course, is not remembering which computer and network I was on when I did each trial.
BTW, I used the very same credit card for ALL the trials.
Next year may be different. IF something besides Fubo (PSVue being gone sucks in this respect) has Hallmark Channel, I will pay for "live" during the season. Wife would not only "allow", she would enthusiastically support. I would do Hulu Live again since I already have Hulu. But in the two or three years that we have accessed Hulu Live, they've never added Hallmark Channel. That's the one channel my wife would pay damn near anything to have without adding or switching providers.
The one thing I took from trying all the different ones: totally a matter of personal preference. No major lag issues, I could care less about the guide/menu since I (personally) only watch Iowa games "live", and the cost is similar across the board, except for ATT Now, which is criminally high. The tier I had--and I couldn't find other levels/plans--was $80. That's ridiculous.
Our cable provider (who provides our internet) tries to get me to do their streaming service. It's $22/month, you get local channels PLUS 10 or 15 others. You can also add movie channels "a la carte". When I ask about BTN, they say, "That probably needs a special sports package", then after the usual hold, they come back and say, "For that, you're better off getting a cable package". Not sure if they hear the "click" when I hang up.
I understand perfectly how it works. I have been in communications-related field since 1986. Our office uses multiple static IPs, among other things (we are a HIPAA-compliant location).
BTW...WTF would I bullshit about getting free trials through football season? I'll grant this: I didn't write down which ones I did from which computer each time, so I very well COULD run into issues next season. At which point I'll just go back to Hulu Live.for 3+ months. But the reason I did it that way this year is I actually kind of wondered if one was "better" than the rest. Personally, I don't care, as long as I can get Fox/Fox-related, BTN, and ESPN/ESPN-related. That, and I literally watched NOTHING else "live", during the trials. The one program I can't get on Hulu--The Blacklist--I can get on the NBC app on Roku. Everything else we watch we get on Hulu or Amazon Prime apps. $16/month for the two of them, $70 for the internet, although I think it just went to $74. For 100-meg internet, that's pretty reasonable.
There IS a problem I ran into a few years ago. We went to Canada in 2016 for our 20th anniversary. I didn't have Hulu Live (not sure it was available, or that we had started using Hulu, yet), and I think we actually still had DirecTV, so I got the ESPN and BTN apps on my tablet. Wanted to watch the Minnesota game in Montreal and got the "This program is not available in your location" message. I could access the scores, stories, etc., but couldn't access the game.
