That doesn't make sense, a "browser spoofing" addon most certainly doesn't do anything that would be detectable by an ISP listening in on your encrypted connections.

[–] thanks_shakey_snake@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Amazon is not an ISP though...? In this scenario, Amazon Prime Video is a server that is receiving a series of HTTP requests. User agent spoofing absolutely would work in that scenario.

[–] fallingcats@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I don't think they were talking about Amazon

[–] superkret@feddit.org 7 points 1 week ago

Only problem is streaming services like Amazon that purposefully limit the quality on Linux.

Literally the comment they replied to.

[–] SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 13 points 1 week ago

That is why I'm not subscribed to any of them. If they don't want to offer me the same bare minimum, it's on them. I mean why are they even doing that? To protect against piracy? Yeah, that seems to be doing absolutely nothing then.

[–] kaityy@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 1 week ago (2 children)

This is the point where you download qbittorrent on the machine, and hop on your favorite torrent site to go get whatever show or movie you want for free, and play it on VLC. Just make sure to use a VPN if you live in a country that enforces piracy law. My reccomendation is Mullvad VPN ($5/month) if you care about privacy, and literally whatever's the cheapest if you don't.

[–] UnsavoryMollusk@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

No port forwarding anymore with mullvad sadly

[–] PriorityMotif@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

You can get a seedbox for $10-$15 and set up the arr stack to automate everything. I think we watch YouTube ad free more than anything though.

[–] bizarroland@fedia.io 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

And it also depends on your version of Linux as sometimes they don't play well with the copy protection software.

I had a lot of issues getting some videos on Tubi to play just because I was playing it on a Linux.

I was using mint cinnamon.

[–] Yondoza@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Couldn't watch the Olympics on Peacock because of this. Super annoying.

[–] Crismus@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Same here I've just started pirating more.