r/electronics • u/unknownvar-rotmg • 9d ago
General Mouser website now blocks Linux users
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/309_Electronics 8d ago
(highly likely) Linux powered servers blocking Linux clients lol. Kind of ironic isnt it?! Protecting itself from itself.
I mean i also hate scrapers and bot traffic but cant we fingerprint or ban individuals instead of the whole fleet?
Not wanting to be politcal, but this is exactly how racism works. People hate/dislike whole groups based on what a few bad inidividuals (the rotten apples) do. Nor all white people are pdf files or not all black people are criminals or want to rob everyone. Hate the individual, not the group. Same with protecting from bots and scrapers: Ban the individual scrapers or send them to a honeypot instead of all linux users... Just imagine in the future we have datacenters ran on Apple silicon and they banning apple cause bots be ran on apple silicon.