• TootSweet@lemmy.world
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    Upgrade?” “UPGRADE?!” Oh no they didn’t.

    Seriously, though, there may well be ways around this without switching your OS. If it’s browser-based, the first thing I’d try is a user-agent switcher.

    Though, actually, does that “remind me later” option work? It does look kindof grayed out, but it couldn’t hurt to try a click.

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        they’re not blocking access

        Wait what? Then wtf is the point of that message? “Your operating system is not supported”, except that it totally fucking is.

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          I’d assume it is not supported as in if you ask them for tech support and they realize you’re not running Windows they’ll happily tell you to pound sand.

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          Yeah, and browsers are running the same engines across platforms, so there are very few differences between using Firefox on Linux and using Firefox on Windows. My best guess is what @[email protected] said, that it’s just allowlisting new Windows user agents and was intended to target people running ancient versions of Windows.

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        I’m guessing it’s the default message for any non-whitelisted os and it was written assuming you’ll be on an old version of windows and not linux

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      They probably check to make sure you’re running a current version of Windows. The code assumes if you’re not on Windows 11, then you need to upgrade.