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.
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.
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The reason is DRM. Windows supports some baked in DRM that Linux doesn't.
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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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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
Then vm it is
They can detect that too - at least, they can detect the common software. You might be able to do it with a custom QEMU setup but good luck guaranteeing that for your exam.
I used to be a reseller of this highly specialized navigation software. The licensing was handled via hardware fingerprinting of the harddrive. I'm not 100% sure on how it worked, but it grabbed some raw data off of the boot device, and from that generated a fingerprint. This fingerprint was then sent to the guys who made the software, and they would then send us a license key and a hefty bill. The license key only worked with syatems running off of that particular harddrive. If a customer had a harddrive failure, we had to send them the actual harddrive for them to verify, so they would issue a free key to whichever replacement drive was used.
I did a lot of experimenting with that software. It was linux based and very tweakable, but the licensing part of it was a bit of a mystery. I managed to crack it through some surprisingly simple out-of-the-box thinking, but one limitation I could never figure out how to circumvent was its refusal to generate a fingerprint from virtual drives.
For starters, it only worked with drives registering as /dev/hdX or /dev/sdX. Anything outside of that and it wouldn't generate a fingerprint.
This was especially frustrating when a well-paying customer offered a nice bonus if we could install it on a macbook for him. After a few days of tweaking I managed to install and run it, only to discover that fingerprinting the drive couldn't be done due to the device node being/dev/nvmeSomething. And after avfew more days of hacking I managed to fake that too, and they outright refused to issue a license due to them not wanting to support our unofficial hacks.
Where was I going with this? Oh, right, vmware.. i never managed to get it to run in vmware. We had this other well paying customer who wanted the ability to alt-tab between the software and Windows. Unfortunately, any fingerprinting done from within vmware, regardless how I set up the storage, resulted in a fingerprint file with no data.
Fun fact: the software ui was written in raw xlib. I got to know the owner and lead dev fairly well, and he hinted that the codebase was a complete mess to the point where something as simple as an input dialog for a config option I recommended was A LOT of work.
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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
Itβs not about drmβ¦ itβs 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!
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.
I have a feeling they're not just FreeBSD enthusiasts being pedantic...
Don't tell me I won't be able to view my books on my pc
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