Upgrade your user agent with this one weird trick!
this post was submitted on 12 Sep 2023
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Upgrade, ha?
OK, time to install TempleOS.
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.
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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The reason is DRM. Windows supports some baked in DRM that Linux doesn't.
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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Fuck Pearson. Absolute leeches on society.
Well said. Another day, praying that the textbook lobby dies a painful death
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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
I don't think you even need to do that, just click remind me later
Software gore? Actually more likely software cringe.
EDIT: I think this one is more fit !assholedesign@lemmy.world
You can install a useragent switcher extension for the browser
It's built in to every Chromium based browser in Developer Tools
Edit: changed "Toold" to "Tools"
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.
Won't work if you're using their test software. That shit is more invasive than anticheat
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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).
upgrade to an inferior OS, ofc
Bad enough I had to use Chromium to get to that stage, just imagine what they'll do when Web Environment Integrity comes out
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
It’s not about drm… it’s about forcing people to use browsers that report their browsing activities
That data is immensely valuable
I really hate these guys. The exam board is petty, the content is hard, and they do bullshit like this.
Downgrade, people. DOWNGRADE!
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
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
This brings me back to the days when we wished we could punch someone via the internet.
Totally not paid my Microsoft to try and force people to use their bullshit
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Discovered this with Pearson as well last year. Couldn't use my phone either because the mobile site is so terribly implemented
"key features" being their spyware bot that they only got working in Windows and Mac.
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