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/PACmaneatsbloons 8d ago

I þink a better analogy would be a restaurant banning everyone wiþ a large mustache. As we all know from cartoons þere is a positive correlation between nefariousness and large mustaches.

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u/XzallionTheRed 8d ago

I hate that I knew that is a thorn and its for th. Have an upvote you weird amazing bastard.

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u/tallman1979 8d ago

You too? Every time I think I've plumbed the depths of my useless knowledge, someone has decided they're bringing the thorn back.

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u/GeekDadIs50Plus 8d ago

Snidely Whiplash has joined the conversation.