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    [–] Johanno@feddit.org 121 points 1 day ago (3 children)

    Some websites do this.

    Change the user agent to windows and it works.

    Fuxk you piece of shit!

    Amazon does this too. After you bought a movie you can't watch it in full hd on Linux. User agent doesn't help.

    However if you tell their api that you are an smart tv running Linux it works....

    [–] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 1 points 12 hours ago

    However if you tell their api that you are an smart tv running Linux it works....

    I wanna figure out how the heck to do this. 1080p doesn't particularly bother me, but it's pretty ridiculous getting discriminated against like that.

    [–] HouseWolf@pawb.social 54 points 1 day ago

    Same goes if you're running Firefox.

    I once had Hotmail take forever to get past the loading screen, then actually navigating my mail was hellishly slow. Switched my user agent to Edge and "magically" it loaded instantly and everything was snappy...

    Had a few other sites do similar slowdowns but that and Youtube were the most unashamedly blatant.

    [–] kameecoding@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

    The amazon might be due to drm, not OS racism, not that that's a valid excuse

    [–] Johanno@feddit.org 20 points 1 day ago

    Drm was not the issue they just refused to run high quality on Linux.

    Linux Browsers Support drm too.