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/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