Pearson complaining about using Linux to access my course material
Pearson complaining about using Linux to access my course material
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I’ll just change my web browser’s user 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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and so they can use browser
vulnerabilitiesfeatures to collect more data on you-
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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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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I use this extension by a Firefox dev
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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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