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    [–] mvirts@lemmy.world 268 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Upgrade your user agent with this one weird trick!

    [–] eruchitanda@lemmy.world 180 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Upgrade, ha?

    OK, time to install TempleOS.

    [–] halvar@lemm.ee 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

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    [–] Vahenir@lemmy.world 150 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 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.

    [–] Johanno@feddit.de 72 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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    [–] snooggums@kbin.social 48 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    "We ain't supporting free shit!"

    • Disney
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    [–] ShunkW@lemmy.world 16 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 141 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Fuck Pearson. Absolute leeches on society.

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    [–] Melpomene@kbin.social 112 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Having used Pearson products, this doesn't surprise me at all. Thier testing software hasn't been updated since the dawn of man.

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    [–] ReveredOxygen@sh.itjust.works 100 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

    [–] 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 93 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 89 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    You can install a useragent switcher extension for the browser

    [–] 0x2d@lemmy.ml 18 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"

    [–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 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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    [–] betwixthewires@lemmy.basedcount.com 75 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

    [–] 520@kbin.social 45 points 1 year ago (5 children)

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

    [–] Overtheveloper@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago (9 children)
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    [–] _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 (4 children)

    You need to update to Linux 2.

    [–] LeroyJenkins@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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    [–] eager_eagle@lemmy.world 69 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    upgrade to an inferior OS, ofc

    [–] hellfire103@sopuli.xyz 55 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 48 points 1 year ago

    Downgrade, people. DOWNGRADE!

    [–] OrangeXarot@sh.itjust.works 43 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

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

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

    [–] 3laws@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    brings me back to the days

    That was yesterday for me.

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    [–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 38 points 1 year ago (17 children)

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

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    [–] WhoRoger@lemmy.world 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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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 23 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 (3 children)

    Can you pirate these courses?

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    [–] reverendsteveii@lemm.ee 16 points 1 year ago

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

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