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[-] mvirts@lemmy.world 276 points 1 year ago

Upgrade your user agent with this one weird trick!

[-] eruchitanda@lemmy.world 186 points 1 year ago

Upgrade, ha?

OK, time to install TempleOS.

[-] halvar@lemm.ee 22 points 1 year ago

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

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[-] Vahenir@lemmy.world 156 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[-] Johanno@feddit.de 77 points 1 year ago

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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[-] snooggums@kbin.social 48 points 1 year ago

"We ain't supporting free shit!"

  • Disney
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[-] ShunkW@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

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

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[-] jagungal@lemmy.world 148 points 1 year ago

Fuck Pearson. Absolute leeches on society.

[-] QuazarOmega@lemy.lol 20 points 1 year ago

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

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[-] ReveredOxygen@sh.itjust.works 100 points 1 year ago

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

[-] Still@programming.dev 19 points 1 year ago

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

[-] kratoz29@lemm.ee 95 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Software gore? Actually more likely software cringe.

EDIT: I think this one is more fit !assholedesign@lemmy.world

[-] yamapikariya@lemmyfi.com 90 points 1 year ago

You can install a useragent switcher extension for the browser

[-] 0x2d@lemmy.ml 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

Edit: changed "Toold" to "Tools"

[-] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 25 points 1 year ago

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

[-] 520@kbin.social 45 points 1 year ago

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

[-] _dev_null@lemmy.zxcvn.xyz 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).

[-] regbin_@lemmy.world 73 points 1 year ago

You need to update to Linux 2.

[-] LeroyJenkins@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago
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[-] eager_eagle@lemmy.world 68 points 1 year ago

upgrade to an inferior OS, ofc

[-] unionagainstdhmo@aussie.zone 65 points 1 year ago

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

[-] eager_eagle@lemmy.world 62 points 1 year ago

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

[-] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 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

[-] hellfire103@sopuli.xyz 56 points 1 year ago

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

[-] cordlesslamp@lemmy.today 49 points 1 year ago

Downgrade, people. DOWNGRADE!

[-] OrangeXarot@sh.itjust.works 44 points 1 year ago

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

[-] cynetri@midwest.social 20 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

[-] Grass@geddit.social 41 points 1 year ago

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

[-] 3laws@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

brings me back to the days

That was yesterday for me.

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[-] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 39 points 1 year ago

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

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[-] WhoRoger@lemmy.world 30 points 1 year ago
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[-] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 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

[-] Adalast@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago

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

[-] spez@sh.itjust.works 19 points 1 year ago

Can you pirate these courses?

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