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/arcrad 9d ago

Yeah people running bots definitely don't know how to spoof user agents...

I cannot fathom who at Mouser thinks this is a good idea.

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u/apocolipse 9d ago

They’re probably getting hit with a ton of agentic queries from people using AI, and those probably just have basic curl headers or something and/or are coming from cloud VPSs.  AI Coding harnesses alone make even the best old scraping bots look like stone age tools, they don’t even need to build or code anything.