Disney+ stopped working on each of my Linux machines (old.reddit.com) 28 points by mastazi 3y ago ↗ HN
[–] asicsp 3y ago ↗ Suggested workaround:>Changing the user-agent to windows works around it.And OP's reply:>Fixed after i flushed browser cache, cookies, DNS cache. But i cancelled my subscription anyway. [–] injinj 3y ago ↗ In Firefox, about:config -> general.useragent.override (select string type) ->Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:106.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/106.0enable drm. Couldn't get it to work in chrome. [–] mastazi 3y ago ↗ In Chromium-based browsers, you can do it in Dev Tools > "three dots menu" > More Tools > Network Conditions > User Agent > "Chrome - Windows"This worked for me and I was able to watch a movie last night in Disney+, using Brave Browser on Ubuntu 22.04.The only problem is that, unlike the one in Firefox, this is not a permanent setting, it's only applied to the current tab.
[–] injinj 3y ago ↗ In Firefox, about:config -> general.useragent.override (select string type) ->Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:106.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/106.0enable drm. Couldn't get it to work in chrome. [–] mastazi 3y ago ↗ In Chromium-based browsers, you can do it in Dev Tools > "three dots menu" > More Tools > Network Conditions > User Agent > "Chrome - Windows"This worked for me and I was able to watch a movie last night in Disney+, using Brave Browser on Ubuntu 22.04.The only problem is that, unlike the one in Firefox, this is not a permanent setting, it's only applied to the current tab.
[–] mastazi 3y ago ↗ In Chromium-based browsers, you can do it in Dev Tools > "three dots menu" > More Tools > Network Conditions > User Agent > "Chrome - Windows"This worked for me and I was able to watch a movie last night in Disney+, using Brave Browser on Ubuntu 22.04.The only problem is that, unlike the one in Firefox, this is not a permanent setting, it's only applied to the current tab.
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[ 0.25 ms ] story [ 17.2 ms ] thread>Changing the user-agent to windows works around it.
And OP's reply:
>Fixed after i flushed browser cache, cookies, DNS cache. But i cancelled my subscription anyway.
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:106.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/106.0
enable drm. Couldn't get it to work in chrome.
This worked for me and I was able to watch a movie last night in Disney+, using Brave Browser on Ubuntu 22.04.
The only problem is that, unlike the one in Firefox, this is not a permanent setting, it's only applied to the current tab.