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> changes user agent > site works just fine > mfwIf I had a dollar for every time someone has mentioned that under this post…
Yes I can do that, in fact it doesn’t even stop me using it and it works fine. But you’re missing the point. The point is they claim that their website is OS-dependent when they’re really just lazy-asses
Are they even lazy though? As far as I know that check and block has to be implemented. If they were lazy it would just work.
Upgrade your user agent with this one weird trick!
Having used Pearson products, this doesn’t surprise me at all. Thier testing software hasn’t been updated since the dawn of man.
Uhm acthually Linux is not an ,emph, operating shystem it is a kernel
Pearson: “Always Learning”
Upgrade, ha?
OK, time to install TempleOS.
I have a feeling they’re not just FreeBSD enthusiasts being pedantic…
Fuck Pearson. Absolute leeches on society.
Have to go their testing centers for certifications. Place feels so damn sterile I wanna die, and the buzz of the fluorescent tubes is just…
Place feels like the Backrooms but with less yellow
Well said. Another day, praying that the textbook lobby dies a painful death
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
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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.
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.
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
Just tested it, it works.
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
Meaning it doesn’t run in wine?
Yep. This is by design - it’s trying to detect container software that stops it from seeing what else is running.
But wine is no container software.
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
“key features” being their spyware bot that they only got working in Windows and Mac.
