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cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/3376057

I held off on Windows 10 for as long as I could until my job required it. Now this nonsense. I hope this isn't the start of them joining on the web DRM bandwagon.

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[–] heimchen@discuss.tchncs.de 17 points 2 years ago (6 children)

Does a user agent change this

[–] ytrav@lemmy.world 21 points 2 years ago (3 children)

wait so it straight up just refuses to work if it detects that you have Firefox via the user agent??? I knew Adobe was scummy, but THAT MUCH?

[–] LambLeeg@lemm.ee 5 points 2 years ago

That dude ain't joking. You can bypass similar bs by changing user agent

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