Mildly Infuriating

Upgrayedd. With two "d"'s. For a double-dose of telemetry.

I always hate this when it's used to target Firefox.

"upgrade to chrome"

Like... What the fuck?

This means they forgot platforms other than Windows exists. It's likely they're checking for currently supported systems and anything older is insecure, so blocked for your security.

Likely something like this pseudocode

function isPlatformVersionSupported(useragent) {
    // Windows XP is NT 5.1
    // Windows Vista is NT 6.0
    // Windows 7 is NT 6.1
    // Windows 8 is NT 6.2
    // Windows 8.1 is NT 6.3
    // Windows 10 and 11 is NT 10.0
    if (useragent.name == "Windows" && useragent.version.match(/Windows NT (6\.3|10)/)) {
        return true
    }

    // TODO: insert supported macos versions here

    return false
}

Haven't you heard? Pearson's requires at least Linux 2.

Aw, manggg. But I just upgraded to Linux last week. Shoot...

Back to being treated like an idiot, force fed bloat, having no control over my own PC, and taking four steps to get everything done but often ending up down a rabbit hole of 19 step troubleshooting just to say, "Fuck it! Fine! I'll accept the new feature" then being toured on the new feature after it crashes first then won't let you login, but finally you do and THEN you've got your file open but forget what for by then, all the while it's notifying you of updates constantly but you won't run them because you noticed it contains the AMD driver which is the old one so Adrenaline will stop working but that also means Windows has somehow undone the group policy fucking around you had to and they say Linux is hard while Windows thinks I'm the fucking idiot and I CANT EVEN SHRINK THE FUCKING PARTITION BECAUSE OF THE GOD.DAMNED PAGE FILE IS JIZZED ALL OVER THE FUCKING DRIVE AND- RAAARRRGH!!!!

snaps back

Huh, sorry. I get flashbacks still. The doctors say with the right therapy, I'll be better in a year.

It's hilarious how bad it is

I won't ramble but I'm a cybersecurity professional with a lot of certs and... I've played with it.

Hey Pearson, I have completely defeated your anticheat measures. Ironically, have used my expertise to pass cybersecurity exams. Fight me.

Hey OP, use a free windows VM. Guess how many monitors your VM has? Guess how many your host can have? Yeah.

This was 2019, so they may have gotten past that but I tells ya... For folks testing cybersec pros, they sure don't have airtight opsec.

They probably assume you are running something like Windows 7

and so they can use browser ~~vulnerabilities~~ features to collect more data on you

My bank does this too. I also just change the user agent to switch and it works with no issues.

At this point it just seems silly that they even want to go out of their way to Prohibit Linux users