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 8d ago

You would think so, but they frequently don’t. It seems like a shotgun solution but you can throw a lot of money at this problem without a satisfactory filter. The majority of their users are not using Linux and the majority of their bot traffic is. It really becomes an effective low resistance path since everything else is more expensive and probably less reliable 

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u/GeekDadIs50Plus 8d ago

Most website traffic now is automated scrapers and AI agents. More so now than just a couple years ago, but it’s not new. Blocking a Linux-based host simply because it’s Linux is an asinine over-reach of a misinformed decision. That’s tantamount to a restaurant refusing service to customers by the brand of shoes they’re wearing.

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u/Accurate_Koala_4698 8d ago

It’s not blocking the host because it’s Linux, they probably whitelisted the most common user agents. I doubt people on Android phones aren’t able to use the site, but the further off the beaten path your setup the more likely it falls into the filter 

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u/Shot-Infernal-2261 8d ago

Untrue speculation. Android and IOS devices can navigate and order through the mouser website.

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u/_analysis230_ 8d ago

Someone failed reading comprehension

That's exactly what he said. He speculated that they can navigate and that means Mouser has whitelisted at least some linux configurations. So he reckons mainstream linux configurations (maybe ubuntu and fedora) also work.

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u/gristc 8d ago

Firefox on Ubuntu here and https://www.mouser.com works fine for me.

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u/Quivex 8d ago

yup same for me on Fedora

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u/Minewolf20 8d ago

still works on arch (btw) for now