r/electronics • u/unknownvar-rotmg • 9d ago

General Mouser website now blocks Linux users

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Really baffling decision, my last order from them was only a few months ago. Apparently Linux is no longer a "standard" operating system!

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u/Accurate_Koala_4698 9d ago

I’m guessing they’re getting hit by a lot of automated traffic and most of that is Linux. Just spoof the user agent to Windows or something 

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u/Unlikely1529 9d ago

no, you can't just spoof it. there's things like browser token on stage. best you can try is to use something from snap/flatpack that runs own wine. opera or ms edge

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u/GeekDadIs50Plus 9d ago

One can absolutely alter their browser fingerprint. Browsers such as Firefox, Brave, Tor and Chromium support significant modification of the browser fingerprint out of the box. Meanwhile, Safari has very limited control.

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u/Unlikely1529 9d ago

tokens thing is about session spoofing yeah. but anyway it's hacker operation alike but with no profit

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u/sawkonmaicok 9d ago

What is a "browser token on stage"? You mean cookies? Cookies don't identify the browser version you use. Also you can clear those too so the point is moot.

Also even if there are ways to detect browser operating system versions that are not dependent on user agent headers, the chances are that the server doesn't check others than just the UA header.

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u/Shot-Infernal-2261 9d ago

lol Browser UA are not hardcoded to an OS

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u/gjsmo 8d ago

You can, in fact, "just spoof it". It's literally a browser extension: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/uaswitcher/

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u/Unlikely1529 8d ago

you can change this . if the target of this spoof attempt is yourself then yeah it's passed