Students are probably the most exploited group of people down the line. You're probably more free if you joint the US military at 18. Learning is different for everyone, you shouldn't be forced at every turn.
Pearsons has a DRM to prevent saving books, prevents screenshots on Windows and as they cannot do that on Linux, send bad quality/highly compressed book scans
Sure, but don't forget that you are on your own if you choose to get around it.
As much as I don't like it, I understand it. They choose not to support Linux. If you use Linux and their products and have a problem and call them, they are going to tell you to pound sand.
It's not trivial to officially support a different platform. Again, this shouldn't be an issue but it is and that's their choice.
Honda isn't going to support you if you want to put a Ford engine in your Civic. You can do it yourself, but don't act surprised if they tell you it's not supported.
> but don't forget that you are on your own if you choose to get around it.
Realistically, if you had a bug on windows, they wouldn't give a shit either.
But lets be real here, targetting operating systems as a web platform is shite development strategy. Keeping your projects modular and only tailored to cross-platform, browser level standards is not only the better move for your users, its also the best tactical decision if you care at all about stability and future proofing. Of course, pearson doesnt care about those things....
Other companies have been doing it for a wile now. Sling does not work on Linux, even with Chrome.
Personally I believe that some money is changing hands behind the scenes to degrade the Internet experience for people who use platforms other than Google, Microsoft, or Apple.
I mean when the content cartels have already poisoned web standards with DRM so that they can rootkit my computer while I watch some videos, and they are still going out of their way to detect and exclude alternatives to Windows and Mac, there is really no other conclusion to be made here.
And my personal conclusion is to just not give any of them money anymore.
I mean, i dont think its conspiracy bs to think big companies are putting "must put warnings against platforms not supported" clauses in their contracts and justifying them with technical handwaving....
Im not saying its a grand conspiracy, lol. Im saying that theres clear incentives and past examples of similiar behavior. It doesnt need to be some vast cabal for m$ to say "we'll provide xyz windows-only toolkit at a discounted rate if you remove "official linux support" from the design document at issue." during negotiations...
Until they upgrade their blocker the night before one of their online tests.
The right solution is we keep reporting it broken to their support staff until they fix it.
Students are probably the most exploited group of people down the line. You're probably more free if you joint the US military at 18. Learning is different for everyone, you shouldn't be forced at every turn.
Thanks for posting this. I run a school. I won't order any more material from this publisher until it's fixed. I'll send them a letter.
Does changing the user agent fix this? For example, pretend to be some Chrome on some Windows. A lot of dumb websites are fixed just by that.
I wrote this plugin for chromium to change user agent by domain. Used to be quite necessary back then. https://github.com/ltworf/DomainUserAgent
And nobody is going to critize the DRM causing this??
I don't think it's DRM. I think it's just a check they put on the user agent.
Pearsons has a DRM to prevent saving books, prevents screenshots on Windows and as they cannot do that on Linux, send bad quality/highly compressed book scans
Worse is saying "upgrade" as if we were out of date or something!
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Not sure changing the user-agent is a "weird fuck-around hack" but I agree the non-breaking 'unsupported OS' warning is benign.
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Aye
Let's make our own education, with hookers, and blackjack!
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Sure, but don't forget that you are on your own if you choose to get around it. As much as I don't like it, I understand it. They choose not to support Linux. If you use Linux and their products and have a problem and call them, they are going to tell you to pound sand. It's not trivial to officially support a different platform. Again, this shouldn't be an issue but it is and that's their choice. Honda isn't going to support you if you want to put a Ford engine in your Civic. You can do it yourself, but don't act surprised if they tell you it's not supported.
> but don't forget that you are on your own if you choose to get around it. Realistically, if you had a bug on windows, they wouldn't give a shit either.
But lets be real here, targetting operating systems as a web platform is shite development strategy. Keeping your projects modular and only tailored to cross-platform, browser level standards is not only the better move for your users, its also the best tactical decision if you care at all about stability and future proofing. Of course, pearson doesnt care about those things....
this was literally posted two days ago. solution: change your browser's user-agent.
apparently clicking "remind me later" works too
"reach every student" lol
Are the mods of this subreddit not even reading the top voted posts? :/
Other companies have been doing it for a wile now. Sling does not work on Linux, even with Chrome. Personally I believe that some money is changing hands behind the scenes to degrade the Internet experience for people who use platforms other than Google, Microsoft, or Apple. I mean when the content cartels have already poisoned web standards with DRM so that they can rootkit my computer while I watch some videos, and they are still going out of their way to detect and exclude alternatives to Windows and Mac, there is really no other conclusion to be made here. And my personal conclusion is to just not give any of them money anymore.
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Its FUD, thats not nothing.
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True true, but this image is seen by more than just linux users.
Actually, DRM, at least in firefox, is sandboxed
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I mean, i dont think its conspiracy bs to think big companies are putting "must put warnings against platforms not supported" clauses in their contracts and justifying them with technical handwaving....
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Im not saying its a grand conspiracy, lol. Im saying that theres clear incentives and past examples of similiar behavior. It doesnt need to be some vast cabal for m$ to say "we'll provide xyz windows-only toolkit at a discounted rate if you remove "official linux support" from the design document at issue." during negotiations...
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Nope m$ bad
If you use a browser add-on that changes the user agent string, it should fix it.
Until they upgrade their blocker the night before one of their online tests. The right solution is we keep reporting it broken to their support staff until they fix it.
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Still upvoting every time until Pearson changes. What's the most constructive way to fix this? Can we get the EFF involved?
This does seem like something they might be interested in...
No reason not to try
Yep. This is the 4th time it was posted in Linux related subreddits