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    [–] [email protected] 277 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Upgrade your user agent with this one weird trick!

    [–] [email protected] 183 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Upgrade, ha?

    OK, time to install TempleOS.

    [–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Upgrading my masochism that led me to using linux in the first place

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    [–] [email protected] 156 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (7 children)

    Hey, at least it told you. When i was fiddling to get disney plus working on my own setup it just refused to play until i changed the reported OS to windows. Nothing else was changed. I really have no idea why they would go out of their way to block specific operating systems.

    [–] [email protected] 76 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    Same with Amazon Videos.

    AFTER I PAID it told me my os does not support hd quality Playback.

    With kodi and a plugin I got it working to run at 1080p

    Saved it with OBS out of spite.

    Changing the user agent unfortunately didn't work.

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    [–] [email protected] 49 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    "We ain't supporting free shit!"

    • Disney
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    [–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

    The reason is DRM. Windows supports some baked in DRM that Linux doesn't.

    [–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

    They just whitelist few of the "supported", operating systems. The message says what your OS is because it blindly read that from the UA.

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    [–] [email protected] 146 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Fuck Pearson. Absolute leeches on society.

    [–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

    Well said. Another day, praying that the textbook lobby dies a painful death

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    [–] [email protected] 101 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Pearson is stupid, but for homework you can get around it by changing your user agent. For proctoring you have to actually boot into windows though

    [–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago

    I don't think you even need to do that, just click remind me later

    [–] [email protected] 94 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    Software gore? Actually more likely software cringe.

    EDIT: I think this one is more fit [email protected]

    [–] [email protected] 92 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    You can install a useragent switcher extension for the browser

    [–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

    It's built in to every Chromium based browser in Developer Tools

    Edit: changed "Toold" to "Tools"

    [–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Firefox lets you do it in settings as well

    https://winaero.com/change-user-agent-firefox/amp/

    Or it used to, I cannot test at the moment

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    [–] [email protected] 76 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Just change your user agent. Fuckers have no business knowing.

    [–] [email protected] 45 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Won't work if you're using their test software. That shit is more invasive than anticheat

    [–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (9 children)
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    [–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

    Yes, and at least there's no more ms activex bullshit to fail either (looks like S. Korea finally got rid of it 3 years ago too).

    [–] [email protected] 72 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    You need to update to Linux 2.

    [–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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    [–] [email protected] 68 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    upgrade to an inferior OS, ofc

    [–] [email protected] 65 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Bad enough I had to use Chromium to get to that stage, just imagine what they'll do when Web Environment Integrity comes out

    [–] [email protected] 62 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    ah yes - WEI, the DRM for the web - because we all know how effective DRM was to avoiding piracy.

    these policymakers and lobbyists are a bunch of clowns

    [–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    It’s not about drm… it’s about forcing people to use browsers that report their browsing activities

    That data is immensely valuable

    [–] [email protected] 54 points 1 year ago

    I really hate these guys. The exam board is petty, the content is hard, and they do bullshit like this.

    [–] [email protected] 49 points 1 year ago

    Downgrade, people. DOWNGRADE!

    [–] [email protected] 42 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    I'm going to guess it's because they wanted to account for older windows operating systems and they made that everything that isn't like windows 7+ mac and stuff it pops this message and the linux string is probably taken by the useragent.

    sorry for bad English

    [–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

    English is all good, and honestly that's a good point. I tend to forget that the browser is what forwards the OS to the website, not the OS itself

    [–] [email protected] 40 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    This brings me back to the days when we wished we could punch someone via the internet.

    [–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    brings me back to the days

    That was yesterday for me.

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    [–] [email protected] 39 points 1 year ago (17 children)

    Totally not paid my Microsoft to try and force people to use their bullshit

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    [–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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    [–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago

    Discovered this with Pearson as well last year. Couldn't use my phone either because the mobile site is so terribly implemented

    [–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago

    "key features" being their spyware bot that they only got working in Windows and Mac.

    [–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Can you pirate these courses?

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    [–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

    I have a feeling they're not just FreeBSD enthusiasts being pedantic...

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