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Upgrade your user agent with this one weird trick!
> 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
Fuck Pearson. Absolute leeches on society.
Well said. Another day, praying that the textbook lobby dies a painful death
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
Upgrade, ha?
OK, time to install TempleOS.
Uhm acthually Linux is not an ,emph, operating shystem it is a kernel
Pearson: “Always Learning”
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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.
They just whitelist few of the “supported”, operating systems. The message says what your OS is because it blindly read that from the UA.
The reason is DRM. Windows supports some baked in DRM that Linux doesn’t.
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
I have a feeling they’re not just FreeBSD enthusiasts being pedantic…
Just change your user agent. Fuckers have no business knowing.
“key features” being their spyware bot that they only got working in Windows and Mac.
I really hate these guys. The exam board is petty, the content is hard, and they do bullshit like this.
Totally not paid my Microsoft to try and force people to use their bullshit
Why do you think that?
Probably more that they want to support any major OSes, and Linux just doesn’t have the market share they deem profitable enough.
I think it’s a web app, and it shouldn’t matter what fucking OS I use.
Really now?
It’s a web page. Webpages have shit to do with the operation system. Webpages however have been a classic Microsoft truck to force people on their shit software (hello ie6 hell!) so you can pretty much bet money on it that this is done at the request of a manager who got a good deal with Microsoft.
Which is bull because their stuff runs in a browser.
