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Upgrade your user agent with this one weird trick!
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Use this extension
There is also a Chameleon addon
It allows you to change the user agent for individual sites without changing the global one
Yeah, it’s a fork of User Agenti Switcher
See? This is why they need Browser Attestation… /s
Upgrade, ha?
OK, time to install TempleOS.
Upgrading my masochism that led me to using linux in the first place
Use lfs as your main. Takes like 6-8 hours to set up the base os.
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.
You did? I also tried that, but the best resolution I got was 540p… As far as my research went that was because they require a higher widevine level not available on linux for HD
Install kodi and then the vod-Amazon plugin.
Then you have at least 1080 if higher res is possible idk.
That’s more to do with the version of WideVine DRM your browser has - the DRM in Firefox is neutered so the chrome will always give the best experience. Why? Because the WideVine DRM is owned by Google.
It didn’t work on Firefox Chrome or anything I tried
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Because you didn’t read the technical specs of that service before you purchased it. The information was there and you ignored it. Why do people buy things based on assumptions?
Here is the info you should have read before you bought. They have a page dedicated to this exact topic:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=GUVGB3QMQRYRERYW
Of course I like every other human that uses any Service in the internet read the whole Terms and conditions when I signed up and everytime they changed.
I am pretty sure it is illegal in my country to not disclaim such information before you purchase. And it should not be legal anywhere!
Oh yes, trusty GUVGB3QMQRYRERYW, one of my favourite amazon pages. There’s something just so playful about the page name that every time I think of GUVGB3QMQRYRERYW, I just have to smile. Unlike GUVGB3QNQRYRERYW, that page sucks ass!
“We ain’t supporting free shit!”
- Disney
Do this:
\- Disney
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.
I have regularly watched Disney plus and Max on my Linux systems. But not all Linux systems are equal. Watching it on something like Debian would be pretty hard. Debian generally doesn’t support much in the way of DRM as it goes against most of their philosophy. You can get a browser installed with support for the widevine DRM they require. But it’s a lot of work on a system like that. However under Arch or Endeavor OS it was relatively simple.
However under Arch or Endeavor OS it was relatively simple
Yeah I was about to ask, since my buddy and I watch Star wars sometimes on his arch Linux machine I thought Disney+ just had native linux support
This must be a while back, because it works fine here.
A few months ago they had a bug that prevented playback on Linux. But that was resolved after a week or so.
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Time to upgrade to another product.
Sadly, we get fuckin’ stuckbwith certain publishers either through sweetheart deals with admin (so we professors don’t get a choice) or through lack of available courseware/software/support elsewhere.
At my institution, we’re lucky, because we get to pick basically whatever we want. We’re pushing hard for free open-access stuff. Fuck contemporary publishers.
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
Just tested it, it works.
Ah alright. I didn’t know that
You need to update to Linux 2.
Linux Professional™
And here I was running Linux Pleb all along.
Bruh, we’re on linux 6 now!
*Ubuntu Pro
I could understand things not working if you’re still on kernel version 1 though :D
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.
brings me back to the days
That was yesterday for me.
We about doxxing now
Fite me irl or gtfo
What is your name?
Joe
Nooo, it should’ve been Tony
Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
https://piped.video/shorts/iYXkh6W2ABo?si=fCm7EEhfGXWw555y
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
I’m open-source, check me out at GitHub.
Lol that’s gold
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.
