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    From Newyana2@3:770/3 to All on Mon Mar 25 15:43:56 2024
    RPi4. Streaming fine with Netflix, Hoopla, PBS. Netflix
    required spoofing the Chromium userAgent at some point, but
    it's fine. However, HBO Max returns unsupported browser no
    matter what userAgent I give it. Anyone know about this...
    or know why Chromium on ARM is stuck at v. 92?

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  • From Chris Townley@3:770/3 to All on Mon Mar 25 20:49:00 2024
    On 25/03/2024 19:43, Newyana2 wrote:
    RPi4. Streaming fine with Netflix, Hoopla, PBS. Netflix
    required spoofing the Chromium userAgent at some point, but
    it's fine. However, HBO Max returns unsupported browser no
    matter what userAgent I give it. Anyone know about this...
    or know why Chromium on ARM is stuck at v. 92?



    Not sure what Chromium you are using. Under Bookworm I see:

    Version 122.0.6261.89 (Official Build) Built on Debian , running on
    Debian 12 (64-bit)


    --
    Chris

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  • From The Natural Philosopher@3:770/3 to All on Tue Mar 26 10:38:54 2024
    On 25/03/2024 19:43, Newyana2 wrote:
    However, HBO Max returns unsupported browser no
    matter what userAgent I give it.

    One of the reasons I gave up with Barclays Bank share dealing service.
    "Update your browser"....

    It worked on an ancient firefox in an XP virtual machine though.

    There is I suspect something that uses javascript to interrogate the
    operating system to find out what platform you are running that goes
    something like this

    switch (detected OS)
    case Windersl...blah
    case OSx...blah
    case IOS...blah
    case android ...blah
    default, "update your browser" and fuck off.

    And, since these days all websites are written using someone else's
    toolset, and in javascript. the numpties who put it together have no
    idea how to fix it anyway,.

    --
    Climate is what you expect but weather is what you get.
    Mark Twain

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  • From Newyana2@3:770/3 to All on Tue Mar 26 08:52:18 2024
    Thanks to you both. I ended up updating from Buster
    to Bookworm. Buster had Chromium 92 and the userAgent
    spoof apparently wasn't fully working. (Netflix didn't complain
    about it, but HBO did.)

    Bookworm's v. 122 works fine. I hadn't thought of updating
    Raspbian, so I guess HBO did me a favor. Bookworm seems to
    be snappier than Buster on the same hardware... Microsoft
    could learn something.

    I noticed that Firefox in Bookworm now has the DRM option
    in the settings. Widevine for ARM64 in Firefox at long last?
    I haven't tested it.

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