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Comment on Pearson complaining about using Linux to access my course material

JuxtaposedJaguar@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

I’ll just change my browser agent then; you’re a fucking website, you don’t need to know which OS I’m using.

It’s amazing how many “unsupported” web apps work perfectly fine once you change the UA. It’s often a completely arbitrary limitation so that they can hire less qualified support staff.

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janus2@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
and so they can use browser ~~vulnerabilities~~ features to collect more data on you

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- lagoon8622@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  
  Nope we don’t want to hire anyone who knows anything about Linux, no one uses Linux
  
  “Linux is unsupported”, that’ll work
  
  Everyone: uses a UA switcher
  
  “See? No one uses Linux, 100% of users are on Windows or MacOS”
  
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Irelephant@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
A small publisher’s ebook platform recently started blocking firefox for me, did a bit of digging and found that if pages aren’t requested with the right headers (which work in chrome and msedge) it will respond with a 302, suggesting you go to another page which takes a few minutes and then times out.

This is probably to stop scraping, and could be because I started testing some scraping scripts on it.

Anyway, this hasn’t even stopped me scraping, I just copied the headers and use those in my script.

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- Evotech@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  I use this extension by a Firefox dev
  
  addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/…/chrome-mask/
  
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  - Irelephant@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    I also use it, but it doesn’t work in this case. Thats why I said headers instead of just user agent.
    
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