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For the past couple of weeks I have noticed severe UI slowness on Hulu app for Apple TV. Responsiveness delay was 8 to 10 seconds at its worst. I found the following resolution fixes it. Understanding that Hulu / Disney+ are in the process of integrating the Hulu experience into the Disney+ app to eventually retire the Hulu app I figured changes are on their end. I also noticed the domain "browser-intake-datadoghq.com" popping up in my logs recently, flagged by multiple Control D & 3rd party lists that I have enabled for blocking. Setting the domain to bypass by itself didn't resolve the issue. I had to also bypass the "Hulu" and "Disney+" service. A search online states that the domain "browser-intake-datadoghq.com" is used for user tracking and data collection for Hulu and that blocking it will result in the symptoms I was having.

Final solution:
browser-intake-datadoghq.com - set to redirect to "random" location. (Makes it harder for them to build a complete profile on you.)
Bypassed "Hulu" & "Disney+" services. (redirect will break it for geolocation services such as live TV which I use.)

Now UI responsiveness is normal after a few hours of testing w/reboots on Apple TV.

I have previously opted-out of data sharing through Hulu. Suggest everyone else do the same. Links are obfuscated and hard to find.

I hope this helps. Cheers.

Glad I have Control D and analytics to troubleshoot.