okr765@lemmy.okr765.com to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agoPearson complaining about using Linux to access my course materiallemmy.okr765.comimagemessage-square205linkfedilinkarrow-up11.23K
arrow-up11.23KimagePearson complaining about using Linux to access my course materiallemmy.okr765.comokr765@lemmy.okr765.com to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square205linkfedilink
minus-square𝕸𝖔𝖘𝖘@infosec.publinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up47·1 month agoI had that problem. I changed my ua to Edge on Windows, and the message went away. Everything worked.
minus-squareCanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·1 month agoHoly shit, why even implement the message then? There is no good answer.
minus-squareBrandonazz@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16·1 month agoNetflix does the same thing with “supported browsers.” It doesn’t matter if it’s actually supported, just whether it’s one of the two or three it allows because it can do analytics or whatever with them.
minus-squareEcholynx@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 month agoHuh, would that work for remote proctors?
minus-squarePhoenixbouncing@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·1 month agoNo because that requires installing a rootkit on your machine as part of their anti-cheat system.
I had that problem. I changed my ua to Edge on Windows, and the message went away. Everything worked.
Holy shit, why even implement the message then? There is no good answer.
Netflix does the same thing with “supported browsers.” It doesn’t matter if it’s actually supported, just whether it’s one of the two or three it allows because it can do analytics or whatever with them.
Huh, would that work for remote proctors?
No because that requires installing a rootkit on your machine as part of their anti-cheat system.